On 06/07/2017 03:37 PM, Unman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 09:39:30AM -0300, Franz wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:53 AM, pixel fairy <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 11:27:17 PM UTC-7, Alex wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If anybody could find/link/remember the reasons why IPv6 was
>>>> explicitly discarded in a first moment I'd like to re-read
>>>> that...
>>> 
> [...]
> On reasons why IPv6 isnt yet implemented, there are various remarks. 
> Back in February Marek said: <quote> We're not considering having
> directly-addressable IPv6 VMs by default (maybe an optional feature,
> but not sure if even that). When we'll implement IPv6 support, it
> will also use NAT. There are many reasons for that: - not expose VMs
> to external traffic by default (even in case of some firewall error,
> not allow directly address particular selected VM) - not leak (or at
> least make it harder to guess) information about source VM / number
> of them (or even the fact of using multiple VMs) - not reconfigure
> every VM when user switch to a different network, including plugging
> in VPN services etc - the above is especially important in case of
> some privacy use cases, to not leak "real" address to the VM 
> </quote>
That was the quote I was looking for, thanks Unman.

-- 
Alex

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