From: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 05:23:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: AT&T Public Policy Research -- hiring for cypherpunks
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Bill Franz writes:
> Adam Shostack wrote:
[...]
>>IP numbers are not portable, DNS names are.  You can move toad.com
>>anywhere on the network, but you can't move 140.174.2.1 anywhere on
>>the network.
>
>FYI - IP portability, both in the sense of disconnecting in one place and
>reconnecting in another and in the sense of keeping a TCP connection alive
>while moving from place to place are design goals of IPv6

But IPv6 also brings link-level encryption and makes subliminal
communications channels trivial; Big Brother (now does anyone know
what that that translates to in Chinese?) won't stand for that...

The enhancements of IPv6 make a lot more possiblities for
secure channels and untracable packet-level communications
available.  Instead of needing to jump through many hoops
you just have to subvert one of the new goodies IPv6 gives
you for free :)

jim