Jack Bates wrote: > Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >> In v6ops CPE requirements are being discussed so in the future, it >> should be possible to buy a $50 home router and hook it up to your >> broadband service or get a cable/DSL modem from your provider and the >> IPv6 will be routed without requiring backflips from the user. >> >> So there is a fair chance that we'll be in good shape for IPv6 >> deployment before we've used up the remaining 893 million IPv4 addresses. > > I think this annoys people more than anything. We're how many years into > the development and deployment cycle of IPv6? What development cycle is > expected out of these CPE devices after a spec is FINALLY published?
ipv6 cpe devices have been / are being developed already. the doesn't mean there isn't more work to be done, in > If the IETF is talking "future" and developers are also talking > "future", us little guys that design, build, and maintain the networks > can't really do much. I so hope that vendors get sick of it and just > make up their own proprietary methods of doing things. Let the IETF > catch up later on. Generally the presumption is that people bring work that they are working on to the table. I work for an equipment vendor, if there's no reason for us to implement something why would would we expend cycles to work on it in the IETF either? > > /RANT > > Jack >
