From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 13:42:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA17427 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17382; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA25068; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:41:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:41:18 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9609252041.AA25068@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco), wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software In-Reply-To: <199609252019.NAA06603@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199609252002.PAA08640@brasil.moneng.mei.com> <199609252019.NAA06603@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > 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. A good deal of work has gone into developing IP address autoconfiguration for IPv6 in order to keep machines from ever having their address stored on local stable storage. (They still appear in places like DNS servers, of course.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick