[138180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Mon Feb 28 18:40:41 2011
In-Reply-To: <m2mxlfc3c7.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:40:36 -0800
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 28, 2011 12:28 PM, "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> facile but fallacious fanboyism
>
> o if ipv6 can not operate as the only protocol, and we will be out
> of ipv4 space and have to deploy 6-only networks, it damned well
> better be able to stand on its own.
>
> o if ipv6 can not stand on its own, then dual-stack is a joke that
> will be very un-funny very shortly, as one partner in the marriage
> is a dummy.
+1
Well said. V6 needs to stand on its own.
Cb
>
> randy
>
