-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote:
> On 1/5/11 10:36 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: >> >> On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Joe Greco wrote: >> >>> A bunch of very smart people have worked on IPv6 for a very long >>> time, and justification for /64's was hashed out at extended >>> length over the period of years. >> >> Very smart people can and do come up with bad ideas, and IPv6 is a >> textbook example of this phenomenon, heh. I certainly bear my share >> of the responsibility for this state of affairs by not getting >> involved, and leaving the heavy lifting to others. > > The reason for standing on the shoulders of giants should not be to piss > on them. > > I sense an unnecessary level of acrimony here. No one is pissing on the work done by the many folks who have spent many years hashing out v6 work. But I think you are missing a larger point -- much of the security community has been summarily dismissed in its concerns along the way. $.02, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNJXTUq1pz9mNUZTMRAs9BAKDh1N+BJFgmbROPSIOf+rM5v+Ol1ACbBfcr qXiMOvfkjLtTaQX55I+Sc2U= =aFv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/