[147930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Dec 28 07:55:41 2011
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:56:19 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnNMqUZEkUMEmupAk4LeA_EFUVqUYhF=6fhU2U4k2PZhPg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Ray Soucy wrote:
>> Granted that the notion of default router of IPv4 is no better
>> than that of IPv6.
>
> Please present a reasonable alternative.
According to the end to end argument, the only possible solution
to the problem, with no complete or correct alternatives, is to
let hosts directly participate in IGP activities.
See the paper by Saltzer et. al.
Masataka Ohta