Steven Bellovin wrote:
>> Thus, IPv6 was mortally wounded from the beginning.
>
> The history is vastly more complex than that. However, this particular
> decision
> was just about the last one the IPng directorate made before reporting back to
> the IETF -- virtually everything else in the basic IPv6 design had already
> been agreed-to.
I understand that, unlike 64 bit, 128 bit enables MAC based
SLAAC with full of states, which is as fatal as addresses
with 32 hexadecimal characters.
> I don't think this was "the" wrong decision.
Isn't it obvious that, with a lot more than 1% penetration of the
Internet to the world today, we don't need address length much more
than 32 bits?
Masataka Ohta
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