[167609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Fri Dec 20 15:44:56 2013
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:44:40 -0500
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52B4A5B9.1040601@dougbarton.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:16:57 -0500, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
wrote:
> On 12/20/2013 05:25 AM, Lee Howard wrote:
>> So there's an interesting question. You suggest there's a disagreement
>> between enterprise network operators and protocol designers. Who should
>> change?
>
> Rather obviously the protocol designers, since they are clearly out of
> touch with real-world requirements. RA/SLAAC was a clever idea 20 years
> ago...
Actually, it was "long ago abandoned" IPv4 technology... IPng didn't
remember the horrible days of IPv4's ICMP Router Advertisement. (i.e. used
SunOS 4, or understand *why* you touch /etc/notrouter during installation)
IPv6 didn't have DHCP because the committee had a deep, genetic, hatred of
DHCP. (rumor has it, saying D-H-C-P would get you removed from the WG.
:-)) IPv6 is the poster child for everything that's wrong with "Designed
By Committee". (too much politics and too many personal agendas)
