[142669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jul 12 00:21:34 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPWAtb+mMZDtwEjSjmZDHOgFkjCpijxo_CoGHU2=pkOYe=0X1g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:16:31 -0700
To: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>
> Again, no one is interested in this problem yet because vendors really
> don't want their customers to demand more knobs. Cisco is the only
> vendor who has done anything at all. If you read about their knob,
> you immediately realize that it is a knob to control the failure mode
> of the box, not to "fix" anything. Why? It can't be "fixed" without
> not using /64 (or similar) or going to the extreme lengths I outline
> in those slides.
>
While it can't be "fixed", controlling the failure mode is adequate in
the vast majority of cases.
Beyond that, it becomes increasingly academic and purist-oriented
rather than operational.
Owen
