Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:03:07 +0100
From: Niall Richard Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| I feel there will still be a need to type IPv6 addresses in some
| circumstances no matter what, unfortunately...
Yes, of course, that cannot be avoided. The feature is to make it
as hard as possible, so no-one wants to do that ahen there is any
conceivable better method available.
But just typing addresses (or even sending them around in protocols,
if they're designed correctly - and I don't know if the ones Christian
mentioned are or not) isn't the real problem, it is recording the
addresses in places that don't get automatically updated.
The real killer to IPv4 renumbering is all the other people that you don't
know who have your IPv4 address recorded somewhere for one reason or
another. That is what IPv6 really needs to avoid. And that includes
making all things like router filter lists be able to use DNS names,
and then use them correctly (update them as the TTL's expire automatically).
kre
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