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> >Political pansies.
> 
> Realists.  "This IPv6 shit breaks my toaster, I will continue to use IPv4
> since it works just fine"
> 
> It'd be nice to say "Sorry, your IPv4 stack is broken", but it's always
> the newcomer that gets blamed for the troubles.  "But it works without
> the new thing, so the new thing must be broken."

This is exactly opposite of the rationale that has FreeBSD enabling
RFC 1323 and RFC 1644 by default instead of leaving them disabled
by default.

You are suggesting we should join Microsoft and Intel to put the
"backwards" in "backwards compatability".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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