[118414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Oct 21 16:34:20 2009
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091021202304.GH1561963@hiwaay.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:33:15 +0200
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 21 okt 2009, at 22:23, Chris Adams wrote:
>> What we need is a thing that gives us what we need to
>> connect to the network (addresses, DNS servers) and then a pointer in
>> the form of an HTTP or HTTPS URL for all other configuration.
> You want to invent yet _another_ form of configuration management?
Short answer: no, life is too short and I have other problems that
need solving.
Long answer: what we have now is a mess, if we want to clean up the
mess we have to get it right, and putting new options in binary
protocols is not right in any way, shape or form.
