Re: V6 still not supported Re: 202203181218.AYC

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Dear Borg:

  1. " … I dont see a way of extending IPv4 without making it a new protocol. … new IP protocol that is much more similar to IPv4, just extends address space. … ": I believe that you will be pleasantly surprised at the proposal summarized by the the below whitepaper. It proposes an overlay architecture over the current Internet. As such, assignable IPv4 addresses are extended without the baggage of the current Internet and no new protocol. To begin the deployment, all need be done is “disabling the program code that has been disabling the use of the 240/4 netblock” in routers.

  2. The “transition” will be mostly transparent from ordinary users’ point of view, because IoTs do not need be reprogrammed. Please feel free to ask me to describe specific issues that you may come across.

Regards,

Abe (2022-03-18 12:43)

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Hi, Blake:

1) " so it's not a chore to tell what thread you're even replying to? ": I am lost by your statement. I start each of my reply by quoting a phrase or sentence of the message that I am responding to. To be sure the original message in included, I copy the last message following what I am writing. I also prefix it with the forum message tag such as in this case "NANOG Digest, Vol 170, Issue 20 Message: 33 ". This should be enough for anyone to follow in the latest exchange, as well as tracing it back in history from the NANOG Digest, if interested. Anything more could I do to ease your efforts without beginning to create a long tail to a thread?

2) " ... a standards compliant mail client ... ": Please name the "standards" and list a couple software that comply with it. This is a topic that I am actually very interested in studying because eMails these days come in too many formats / styles. Please teach me.

Thanks,

Abe (2022-03-21 12:20)

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1) " so it's not a chore to tell what thread you're even replying to? ": I am lost by your statement.

Abe, all of your replies that I've seen in the past few days have been brand new threads (or possibly replies to yourself).

None of your replies have been properly threaded by my email client. This is in contrast to almost all of the other messages that I see on the NANOG mailing list, which do thread properly.

I start each of my reply by quoting a phrase or sentence of the message that I am responding to. To be sure the original message in included, I copy the last message following what I am writing. I also prefix it with the forum message tag such as in this case "NANOG Digest, Vol 170, Issue 20 Message: 33 ".

I'm now speculating that you are subscribed to the "digest" version of the mailing list instead of receiving individual messages.

Glancing at the headers, it appears as if NANOG is hosted on a Mailman mailing list. As such, I believe that you could change your subscription to use MIME formatted digest, which should include more proper RFC-822 copies of the messages. I believe that you could then reply to these individual messages directly and match the threading that I mentioned above.

The problem with digests is that they are brand new messages / threads. So replies to message text therein replies to a message that most of us don't receive (the digest message).

This should be enough for anyone to follow in the latest exchange, as well as tracing it back in history from the NANOG Digest, if interested. Anything more could I do to ease your efforts without beginning to create a long tail to a thread?

Prior to the message that I'm replying to, I was not aware that you were replying to the digest.

Those of us that receive individual messages as opposed to the digest don't have any visibility into the digest volume number, issue number, nor message number. For all intents and purposes it might as well be the "the 4th message that passed my spam filter after my last payday".

As for the copy of the message that you're including, I wasn't aware you were even doing that because you appear to be top posting and I wasn't seeing anything below your signature.

I'd encourage you to look at the MIME formatted digest where you can reply to copies of the original messages and maintain threading. Also, please consider not top posting.

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You've created 18 mail threads in the last 14 days and they're all
basically on the same topic. Something about your mailer or the way
you're using it has made a mess.

You're top-posting, which is against the mailing list conventions
(trim and quote inline). You're back to putting changing date stamps
in the subject lines (do you understand that email already has a date
header?) You're posting in this weird enormous html font. Basically if
you're trying to rub people the wrong way before they even read your
first word, the only thing you could do worse is capitalize every
letter.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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I confirm this would work for the nanog list.

IMHO, digest is not the right mode to subscribe if you intend to post replies
to the list.