[138109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Feb 28 09:59:59 2011
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4D6BB65B.8050309@foobar.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:59:42 -0500
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 2011-02-28, at 09:51, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> I will be a lot more sympathetic about listening to arguments / =
explanations about this insanity the day that the IETF filters out arp =
and ipv4 packets from the conference network and depends entirely on =
ipv6 for connectivity for the entire conference.
It's hard to see v6-only networks as a viable, general-purpose solution =
to anything in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure why people keep =
fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working =
towards is a consistent, reliable, dual-stack environment. There's no =
point worrying about v6-only operations if we can't get dual-stack =
working reliably.
[I also find the knee-jerk "it's different from IPv4, the IETF is =
stupid" memes to be tiring. Identifying questionable design decisions =
with hindsight is hardly the exclusive domain of IPv6; there are =
tremendously more crufty workarounds in IPv4, and far more available =
hindsight. Complaining about IPv6 because it's different from IPv4 =
doesn't get us anywhere.]
Joe=
