Subj : Future Applications
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Sat Dec 30 2017 12:57 pm

Hi Ward!

18 Dec 2017 07:11, from Ward Dossche -> Markus Reschke:

MR>> For example, we had that with CDP, despite the fact that it is still
MR>> supported by a few nodes (and by much more in the past).
MR>> It was ignored for about 10 years and then voted down.
WD> I would say a standard becomes a standard because a sufficient number
WD> of developers or users use it.

CDP was in widespread use in germany.

WD> Take for example the case of IPv6 ... it's as good as nowhere in the
WD> nodelist, yet there is FTSC-documentation dealing with it.

That is a bit of a corner case.
Many ISPs do not offer public IPv4 addresses any more.
You get DS-Lite meaning public IPv6 and private IPv4.
In that light it makes much sense to have a solution for it.

Actually Belgium is at the top of the IPv6 usage, as a Belgian colleague of
mine always reminds me ;)

CU, Ricsi

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