On Jan 26, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > The correct assumption is that most people will try and usually succeed at > follow the specifications, as that is what is required to > successfully participate in a protocol (any protocol, not just networking > ones). IPv4 history has shown that most people will.
Specification <> application, as in new applications. And, no, I don't think that 'most people will' - I've seen enough foolishness with regards to IPv4 misaddressing over the last quarter-century (pre- and post-CIDR) to share your optimism in that regard. ;> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
