[134466] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST IPv6 document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Jan 6 02:46:56 2011
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:46:06 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <A5A1E7C8-D6BB-4C7B-B9AF-48838832E317@arbor.net>
Cc: Nanog Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/5/11 10:36 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>
> 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, and 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 responsibility for this state of affairs by not getting
> involved, and leaving the heavy lifting to others.
The reason for standing on the shoulders of giants should not be to piss
on them.
