Re: draft-cmetz-v6ops-v4mapped-api-harmful-00.txt and draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-01.txt

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:19:08PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> But for simple applications I think it's a huge plus to be able to talk 
> to the network in a unified way without having to spend time and effort 
> on making the IPv4/IPv6 distinction.

I do not know where you make the distinction between a simple
application and a complex one. My experience is that the behaviour
of mapped addresses seems to be different from box to box and the
real pain I had was _portability_ and not the complexity of the
application. And this portability pain was in my case much bigger 
than writing proper code that can handle IPv4/IPv6 addresses
natively.

/js

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