Re: Standards (was Back to Merkle Hash Trees...)

Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:43:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 
> 
>>>The tracker admins that save heaps and heaps of bandwidth from that
>>>extension disagree with you there.  The fact is it's not a very well
>>>thought out extension that has no means of coping with ipv6, but ipv6
>>
>>Wouldn't adding something like peers6 'fix' this?
> 
> 
> Yeah, that'd work.  But the other issues surrounding ipv6 have been
> hashed out over and over on this list in the past so there's more than
> just adapting the binary peers list in the tracker response.  (as I'm
> sure you're aware of...)

I know, I know, but I was wondering about the 'The fact is it's not a 
very well hought out extension that has no means of coping with ipv6' if 
the compact extension can be modified to deal with IPv6 easily.


 
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