[106669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Aug 8 19:11:34 2008
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: deepak@ai.net
In-Reply-To: <489CCE63.9000108@ai.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:11:19 -0700
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Aug 8, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Deepak Jain wrote:
> According to: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/ipv6/
The fine folks at NetBSD really need to update their IPv6 FAQ. That
stuff looks like the IPv6 marketing spiel from 1997 or so that has
long ago been proven ... 'optimistic'.
> Rather than jumping down someone's throat here, are these
> assumptions rampant (or even accurate)?
Unfortunately, you still see the same sort of grandiose claims being
made at non-technical (particularly governmental policy-related)
events. As for accuracy, IPv6 does provide more address space, the
headers are simpler, and stateful auto-config is often provided if you
want it. 3 out of 7...
Regards,
-drc
