To summarize in a more clear words: If your email is for instance: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it is working fine with IPv4. Then when the time comes somewhere.com ISP will connect itself to the IPv6 network (let say address A6) and advertise somewhere.com also on the DNS service as have and IPv6 address. This means that if someone is on an IPv6 only network (I doubt if there a real production someone like this) and she/he would like to send you an email. Then the DNS service would be able to supply her with the adequate IPv6 address (A6 in this case) so that the email message could be sent over the IPv6 network.
Hope this clears things up, Shuki -----Original Message----- From: Marc Schneiders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:33 PM To: Harlan Looney Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Email Implementations On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, at 09:06 [=GMT-0500], Harlan Looney wrote: > Will IPv6 allow users to retain their email addresses even if their ISP changes? If so, how? Email does not go to an IP, but (through an MX record) to a host with a name that points (via an A or AAAA record) to an IP, either IPv4 or IPv6. IPv6 does not have an impact on that. The only way to be certain that you can keep an email address is to 'own' the domain. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
