[Novalug] IPV6 Questions
greg pryzby
greg at pryzby.org
Tue Jul 22 16:01:11 EDT 2008
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Wow.... need to look at CIDR which i thought (wrong again!) was older
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
As I tell my kids, "Learned something new today, time for bed!" (Or beer)
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM, greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:
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>> Really... maybe I will reearch that as I find it 'hard to believe' since
>> I was on 'these tubes' a loooooooong time ago
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> Work began on figuring out what to do in 1992, at which time it was
> known as IPng (ng = next generation...Star Trek NG was big...IPv6 is
> just the new name for it). The IETF accepted it and started
> workgroups in July 1994. RFC 1631 (which is NAT) was published in May
> 1994. The working groups for IPng didn't start up until July 1994.
> If you go buy the call for papers, IPv6 is 2 years older. By the
> workgroup dates, NAT is 2 months older. By the RFCs defining IPv6,
> NAT is 2 years older.
>
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