[141991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jima)
Wed Jun 15 13:29:56 2011
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:29:09 -0500
From: Jima <nanog@jima.tk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <0E0AB5D9-B84F-400B-93DC-EF946AA48C16@muada.com>
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On 06/15/2011 11:45 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 15 jun 2011, at 18:39, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but the last update on this was RFC
>> 5006 I think, which is marked as "experimental", and I thought the
>> IETF still had a working group discussing it.
>
> You missed the upgrade to proposed standard:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6106
>
>> That is, I didn't think it was a finalized standard yet.
>
> The IETF rarely gets around to bringing something from proposed standard to standard. For instance, HTTP and BGP aren't standards either.
Thanks for the citation, right. I also probably should also have
cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_operating_systems
-- the notable holdouts to RDNSS (that support DHCPv6) seem to be
Windows, Solaris, AIX, and IBM i. Unfortunate.
Jima
