> So you are going to tell the army private that is ducking the barrage of > gunfire that he can get the critical info he needs from the marine he just > bumped into, if he only types these (what to him are pseudo-random) 32 hex > characters for both the src & dst. Or you are going to answer all the > support calls to Apple, MS, Palm, ... when Joe-sixpack meets his buddy and > try to connect their 802.11 capable devices in ad-hoc mode to share a file. > Get real. This is a clear capability & advantage that IPv6 brings over IPv4. > The only thing holding it back is the obstinate views of those who don't > want to make the scenarios work.
nope, the thing that's holding this back is the obstinate views of those who insist, in the absence of compelling analysis to the contrary, that LL addressing works just fine for this case. by all means let's make ad hoc networks work reliably. that means considering a wide range of apps, and the boundary cases where some machines on the net are in ad hoc mode while others are connected, and ad hoc networks that extend beyond a single link. don't just throw something together, claim that it works, and ship it in products. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
