[180904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Fri Jun 12 00:45:29 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:45:18 -0700
To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1434082003.3003.98.camel@karl>
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On Jun 11, 2015, at 9:06 PM, Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> You don't get to just say "I'm not going to implement this because I =
don't
>> agree with it," which is what Google is doing in the case of Android.
>=20
> Actually, you DO get to just say that. Anyone can, but especially
> something as big as Google. And if DHCPv6 turns out to be important
> enough to enough people, Android will lose market share and either =
fork,
> die or change its mind. It wouldn't be the first mobile platform to
> disappear into the sludge of history.
Sadly, there is another side to this. Witness how the DMARC crew are =
destroying the functionality of email as we have known it for decades. =
Sometimes the 800 pound gorillas DO have the ability to fsck things over =
for everyone.
--lyndon
P.S. But it is the mindless-sheep-like behaviour that lets them. So =
instead I should be complaining to the masses who are incapable of =
thinking for themselves? We know how well *that* works ...
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