[141825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sun Jun 12 06:37:43 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <6AE1C8D4-57C7-4FF4-9B0F-AD0CF6D7D96B@virtualized.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:36:48 +0200
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11 jun 2011, at 16:39, David Conrad wrote:
>> There is no point in repeating all the IPv4 mistakes with IPv6, if =
that's what you want, stay on IPv4.
> As should be apparent by now, the vast majority of people don't want =
to move to IPv6. They simply want access to "the Internet". ISPs are =
looking for the easiest/cheapest way to do this, which generally means =
the way they've done it in the past. Forcing them to change simply =
slows things down.
Ok, removed my snarky comments on trying to be fast this late in the =
game.
The problem is changing DHCPv6 so people want to deploy it more means =
waiting a couple of years for the changes to start appearing and then =
many more years for the non-changed systems to disappear. How doing this =
makes anything faster is a mystery to me.
People just have to get over the fact that IPv6 is different from IPv4 =
in some regards and it's too late now to change that, because we're =
already way behind deploying IPv6 before the IPv4 addresses run out.=
