[130920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Oct 18 12:09:52 2010
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:09:23 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
In-Reply-To: <20101018153551.GA28093@nudo.bsws.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/18/10 8:35 AM, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> [2010-10-18 17:27]:
>> Have you done IPv6?
>> I have... It's not even difficult(), let alone really().Really().Difficult().
>
> maybe not from a users standpoint (that comes later when it misbehaves
> again). from an implementors (I have written a lot of kernel-side
> networking code and networking related daemons, including a full-blown
> bgpd, and that unfortunately included having to deal with v6)
> viewpoint - IPv6 is a desaster. Why people take up that crap is beyond
> me, instead of working on a viable alternative that doesn't suck.
> Which is certainly possible.
Wait, and OpenBSD developer that thinks everyone else's work is crap?
Shocking...
I encourage you to build and deploy your viable alternative...
thanks
joel
