ip6.arpa

[Bill Manning]

% 
% On Thu, 3 May 2001, Bill Manning wrote:
% 
% >  not yet.  still using ip6.int.
% >
% One senses an undercurrent of politics.  The docs glowingly state how
% ip6.int is the way forward (eg in the ARM doc: ``While the use of
% nibble format to look up names is deprecated, it is supported for
% backwards compatiblity with existing IPv6 applications''), but there's no
% sign of it  actually happening.
% 
% Bit of a conflict there if the only method in service is deprecated.
% 
% Pete.
% 

No!!! not politics!

Someone wrote a draft that became an RFC that stated: "the previous method
is depricated by this one", hence the statements in ARM et.al.  Of course 
there was the minor oversight in dealing w/ the:
	) the deployed based
	) lack of tools to effectivly use the new format

Hum....

(note that two years after CIDR effectivly squashed RIPv1, the IETF
published a document formally depricating RIPv1.  And it still has 
broad use.)  I guess the lesson here is that just 'cause someone says
something doen't make it so.

-- 
--bill