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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 16 14:35:40 2011

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110615163906.GA99062@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:31:32 -0700
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> In a message written on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:22:12AM -0500, Jima wrote:
>> Oh, oops; you did touch upon this.  You might want to let the people 
>> who've implemented RDNSS in software know that the IETF is working on 
>> it.  I'm sure that'll be a relief.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> That is, I didn't think it was a finalized standard yet.
> 
> -- 
>       Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
>        PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/

Many of the most widely used technologies on the internet do not become
finalized standards at the IETF level until long after they have been in
widespread use.

Owen



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