[111955] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Tue Feb 17 15:20:37 2009
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: alh-ietf@tndh.net
In-Reply-To: <050701c99135$df0f0ed0$9d2d2c70$@net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:20:19 -0800
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote:
> Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol.
Unfortunately, I gather this isn't what end users or network operators
want or expect. I suspect if we want to make real inroads towards
IPv6 deployment, we'll need to spend a bit more time making IPv6 look,
taste, and feel like IPv4 and less time berating folks for "IPv4-
think" (not that you do this, but others here do). For example,
getting over the stateless autoconfig religion (which was never fully
thought out -- how does a autoconfig'd device get a DNS name
associated with their address in a DNSSEC-signed world again?) and
letting network operators use DHCP with IPv6 the way they do with IPv4.
Or, we simply continue down the path of more NATv4.
Regards,
-drc
