[147929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Dec 28 07:55:26 2011
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:55:57 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnN+DaM+br4SKXr6KP5gTxFOosj4V35Kze-w-vNz8nRi5A@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ray Soucy wrote:
> Your straw man argument (which is what this has become) is just
> dancing around the real issue.� You're going to have to back up and
> make your case for us, rather than trying to respond to one-liners
> made (most of which were sarcastic, by the way).
No counter argument possible against such abstract nonsense.
> You have yet to identify who (beyond yourself) is calling for RA to be
> deprecated,
Tomas Podermanski wrote:
: from my perspective the short answer for this never-ending story is:
: - SLAAC/RA is totally useless, does not bring any benefit at all
: and should be removed from IPv6 specs
: I personally prefer to bury SLAAC once forever for several reasons:
> though you made it sound like majority of the IETF was.
No, I didn't.
Masataka Ohta