RE: Deployment of Dual Stack with Applications

["Bound, Jim" <Jim.Bound@hp.com>]

This is a valid point. I view it as an engineering trade-off users have
to make given what you say for sure.

/jim

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:53 AM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Cc: moore@cs.utk.edu; v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Deployment of Dual Stack with Applications
> 
> 
> 
> > 	How are the apps ported and at what point on the 
> suppliers boxes?
> 
> there is no simple answer to this question.  but changing the 
> behavior of existing APIs to try to hide IPv6 from apps will 
> harm interoperability.
> 
> the goal should be to facilitate a more capable Internet 
> supporting more capable apps, not merely to get apps to 
> change packet formats whether they know about it or not.  
> apps won't get more capable by being unaware of IPv6.
> 
> Keith
>