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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Licensing Software
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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> > IPv6 solves this problem by making my address ranges independent of
> > my ISP/NSP:
> 
> No, wrong.  That is precisely what it does not do.  The IPv6
> addressing plan (as it stands) is designed to provide for
> provider-oriented addresses /only/.  To speak of some other sort of
> identifier as an ``address'' is in fact nonsense.  An address tells
> you how to get there; it does not identify an object.

Sounds like I can no longer have a transiently connected subnet.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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