Markus Buchhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Reading back, that was itojun's proposal, and I suspect probably a > good choice, even if it seems less clean. Itojun is one of the leading > lights in IPv6 development, along with the whole WIDE group in Japan, > and heavily involved in the v6 stacks for the *BSD family (Kame) and > now moving into Linux (Usagi?). They're busy converting everything > useful to support v6
I don't doubt that itojun is serious, but he might have different priorities. For example, he could choose to implement the easiest solution that would make it possible to patch a large number of programs in a realistic time frame. It doesn't mean that such a solution is necessarily the best one for each individual program.
