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Re: turning on comcast v6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Dec 30 12:21:09 2013

Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 07:20:49 -1000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
In-Reply-To: <CEDF00D7.3DAAC%Lee@asgard.org>
Cc: Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>,
 North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> You say, "The protocol suite doesn't meet my needs; I need default
> gateway in DHCPv6."  So the IETF WG must change for you to deploy
> IPv6.  Why?

this is actually a non-trivial barrier to enterprise deployment and the
ietf has been in stubborn denial for years.  when an it department has
been using dhcp since 2000, do not tell them they have to change to the
true religion.  fighting with the customer, thoubgh the ipv6 way, is not
generally a path to success.

randy


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