On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Jim Bound wrote:
> > AF_INET6 will always permit the catch only model because its been a method
> > for over 6 years and customers have ported to that model. We are not
> > getting rid of it now. That is not going to happen. The market has
> > spoken and the early adopter deployment customers will not have their code
> > broken.
> >
> > As far as the default it is you will get v4mapped on AF_INET6 unless you
> > set v6only sockopt.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to have the code potentially broken _now_, when
> they're (very) _early adopters_, versus in 2-3 years when *everybody's*
> code would break?
>
> There are dangers to being an early adopter. One of them is having to
> rewrite code when it becomes clear that certain method, discovered during
> the early adopter phase, is not going to work in the long term.
>
> Better to break 1000 people's code now than 100000's in two years.
>
> Or are we just playing time here? If we can delay this enough, there's no
> way we can get rid of mapped addresses in the next 10 years as it's going
> to be used by ported apps more and more...
i think pekka is right here. unfortunately, as jim has pointed out, the
game may be already over now.
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