Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 15-sep-2007, at 16:51, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> > > 	keys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise
> > > 	level stuff.  not so easy to update in my experience.

> > 	I've always thought that practice to be STUPID.  It was
> > 	stupid 15 years ago and it is still stupid today.

> The fact that you as an individual thing it is stupid (in uppercase  
> or lowercase) is irrelevant. Several large vendors disagree with  
> you. Their customers have gotten used to dealing with this and do  
> not consider it so onerous as to change to the other large vendors  
> who use a different licensing scheme.

If we can't agree that this practice is stupid, can we at least agree  
that we can't let this impose restrictions on what we can and can't  
do within the IETF?

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