<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Microsoft says:<br><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_81" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_82" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1276179065">"Unlike the current IPv4-based Internet, which has a mixture of both flat
and <br>hierarchical routing, the IPv6-based Internet has been designed
from its <br>foundation to support efficient, hierarchical addressing and
routing." <br></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">I did a research paper on IPv6 a couple of years ago and one of the talking points from IETF was the the mobility vs hierarchy tradeoff.<br></span><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_81" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_82" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1276179065"><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_81" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_82" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1276179065"><br>8 byte addresses would provide for more than 4
billion addresses for<br>each IPv4 address. <br><br><br>
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join the "Thy will be done" camp, and vote yes on the marriage <br>amendment. Children deserve to have a father and a mother.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_81" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_19_1351710970996_82" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1276179065">I concur. But I know furthering this discussion will likely draw the ire of the readers of this mailing list as being off topic.<br><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1276179065"><br><br>-- <br>Brian Wood<br>Ebenezer Enterprises<br>http://webEbenezer.net<br>
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