--On mandag, november 11, 2002 09:02:54 -0800 Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
my personal opinion is that the only people who feel any possessive instinct towards 2002:d90d:1cca:2:210:dcff:fe5a:f1fd are the people who have to reconfigure other stuff when it changes.....I think this probably boils down to something completely non-technical: do people view IP addresses as "addresses" ala street addresses, etc, or do they view them as possessions like (now) phone numbers and email addresses. Though the net was designed for "addresses", I suspect that they are viewed more as possessions which is an obvious problem.
unlike domain names or easy-to-remember phone numbers, hanging on to a v6 address is something you do for practical reasons, not emotional ones.
of course, I could be wrong...
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