[180896] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ca By)
Thu Jun 11 21:03:14 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <2f1701d0a4aa$617b98f0$2472cad0$@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:03:11 -0700
From: Ca By <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Yeh, we get it. Repeating yourself is not helpful. The horse is dead ....
Please move your android feature request to a forum more fit for your
request.
On Thursday, June 11, 2015, Paul B. Henson <henson@acm.org> wrote:
> > From: Laszlo Hanyecz
> > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:42 PM
> >
> > from the university net Nazis
>
> Wow, it must be nice to live in a fairyland utopia where there is no DMCA,
> no federal laws such as HEOA, and a wide variety of other things you
> clearly
> know nothing about that require universities to be able to track their
> users
> and manage their networks.
>
> > attacking DHCP is not the right one, but it sounds like his goal is to
> make IPv6
> > better than how IPv4 turned out.
>
> I don't think a single person here has a goal of making IPv6 worse, nor
> necessarily has any objection to the improvements he has suggested. OTOH, I
> think the number of people who think he is making a good decision in
> refusing to implement DHCPv6 is practically nil.
>
> > diplomatic way, I admire his courage in posting here and trying to reason
> with
> > the mob.
>
> If he really wants to validate his position on not implementing DHCPv6,
> maybe he should approach all of the other vendors who already did and get
> them to remove it. Being the one and only holdout on implementing a widely
> deployed Internet standard looks more like lunatic fringe than visionary
> leader 8-/.
>
>
>
