[134456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST IPv6 document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Jan 6 01:37:55 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: Nanog Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 06:36:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: <201101060626.p066Q4ak088421@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> A bunch of very smart people have worked on IPv6 for a very long time, an=
d justification for /64's was hashed out at extended length
> over the period of years.
Very smart people can and do come up with bad ideas, and IPv6 is a textbook=
example of this phenomenon, heh. I certainly bear my share of the respons=
ibility for this state of affairs by not getting involved, and leaving the =
heavy lifting to others.
> Calling it "my" idiocy? "Facepalm" graphic?=20
Concur 100% - I respectfully disagree with you on substantial aspects of th=
e IPv6 situation, and am in substantive agreement with Jeff on most aspects=
which have been discussed on this thread - but you're *far* from an idiot,=
heh.
You're also entirely correct that we need to ensure that our passions and m=
utual frustrations don't lead us into ad hominem attacks; security is an ar=
ea which attracts people of a passionate bent, and it's important that we d=
on't end up in a pointless flame-war.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
-- Alan Kay
