| |I think so, in the end of the day. It makes re-numbering a non- |issue, as even active connections will trivially survive. But the |transition will be long..... (15 years?) | |Hence, if we want to move there (which I think we do), we need some |interim solutions and a roadmap. |
As always with host changes, I'm not convinced that it takes 15 years to make significant forward progress. The (in)security of the net has done us a favor in that we can now update a significant portion of the hosts within one month of having a patch, and certainly with a new OS every 3-5 years. Test: 15 years ago I was programming on a Sun clone (SunOS 4.x) using an NCD Xterminal. None of that hardware has been seen for years and Solaris is now on version 10. Personally, I've gone through 4 PCs, several versions of Windows, numerous versions of FreeBSD and more laptops than I can think of. All it takes to make rapid forward progress is concerted effort, and all that takes is rough consensus... Tony -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
