[X4U] Mail asks for password

Jerry Kemp apple.mail.list47 at oryx.cc
Wed Jan 27 08:14:50 PST 2010


+1

not only is it not experimental, its been the real deal since the mid 
1990's.

You can only expect usage of IPv6 to increase exponentially moving forward.

On 01/27/10 03:51, David Ledger wrote:
> At 12:55 -0800 26/1/10, John Baltutis wrote:
>> On 1/25/10, zapcat <zapcat at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>>  Whether or not it does, do you know of any downsides to turning IPv6 
>>> off?
>>
>> Turn it off. It's experimental:
>> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8708.html>
> 
> The quote from that link: "IPv6 is used primarily by some research 
> institutions" does not mean that it's experimental. In fact it's a full 
> standard and very much alive. Admittedly mainly alive within 
> organisations because of the unreliability of some bits of the Internet 
> infrastructure like some DNS servers.
> 
> To my own knowledge there was much interest in IPv6 deployment at a 2008 
> conference attended by many of those who provide the web services we all 
> use, so it may not be long before we're all using websites with IPv6 
> addresses.
> 
> Most people can turn it off for now, but don't dismiss it as 
> experimental. It left that stage in 1998.
> 
> David
> 
> 


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