Re: An easy example of A6 unreliability

[Ian Jackson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: An easy example of A6 unreliability "):
>       With A6 you *can* follow all the address delegations but
>       you don't *have* to.  Personally I expect sites to be too
>       paraniod to have chains that go outside their administrative
>       control and you will, likely as not, get the full chain
>       returned.

In which case A6 degenerates into an extremely complicated,
special-purpose and generally badly-designed macro substitution
feature.  Surely that isn't the kind of thing that anyone would want
in an IETF protocol.

So we must conclude that the people who think A6 is a good idea must
have some other reason.  What is that reason ?

Ian.
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