[112061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Schnizlein)
Wed Feb 18 17:23:46 2009
From: John Schnizlein <schnizlein@isoc.org>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090218221101.GA17868@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:21:30 -0500
Cc: 'Aria Stewart' <aredridel@nbtsc.org>, 'nanog list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2009Feb18, at 5:11 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:39:57PM -0800, Tony
> Hain wrote:
>> No, the decision was to not blindly import all the excess crap from
>> IPv4. If
>> anyone has a reason to have a DHCPv6 option, all they need to do is
>> specify
>> it. The fact that the *nog community stopped participating in the
>> IETF has
>> resulted in the situation where functionality is missing, because
>> nobody
>> stood up and did the work to make it happen.
>
> The last time I "participated" a working group chair told me
> "operators don't know what they are talking about" and went on to
> say they should be ignored.
This is a problem to be fixed. If you like we can discuss the details
of how to fix it in San Francisco next month.
John
