[141097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jun 3 03:46:10 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinbu2XNmruv29_3D-HkawSe-85s+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:44:12 -0700
To: mail@jaidev.info
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Jaidev Sridhar wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 21:22, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>> It provides a handy space to comment at the bottom.
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>> Perhaps people here would like to let M$ know that it would be =
preferable
>> to provide pointers to real workable IPv6 connectivity solutions =
rather than
>> merely hotwire the system to temporarily bypass IPv6 in favor of =
IPv4.
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>> That's the path I chose.
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> I guess you're all missing the point here. I've never agreed too much
> with M$, but what they're doing is right. IPv6 stacks are quite mature
> these days but IPv6 connectivity can be broken due to incorrectly
> implemented networks / tunnels (see:
> http://ripe61.ripe.net/presentations/223-World_IPv6_day.pdf).
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I'm not missing the point, just suggesting that it would be better if
Micr0$0ft were part of the solution instead of just hotwiring past
the problem.
> For those clients there is no option other than disabling IPv6.
No, there is the option of troubleshooting why IPv6 doesn't work for
them and working to correct it.
> Hopefully the service providers & network admins get to identify and
> fix issues. This problem is not client OS specific. I'm all for M$
> bashing, but not for this reason.
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I didn't see where in the M$ propaganda it suggested calling your ISP
or network admin to have them help you fix the issue, so, I don't see
how what they are proposing has any hope of enabling this.
Owen
> -Jaidev
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>> Owen
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>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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