In message <28d10d13-988b-4c7d-833b-eba6e1bc1...@hopcount.ca>, Joe Abley writes : > > On 2011-02-28, at 09:51, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > > I will be a lot more sympathetic about listening to arguments / = > explanations about this insanity the day that the IETF filters out arp = > and ipv4 packets from the conference network and depends entirely on = > ipv6 for connectivity for the entire conference. > > It's hard to see v6-only networks as a viable, general-purpose solution = > to anything in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure why people keep = > fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working = > towards is a consistent, reliable, dual-stack environment. There's no = > point worrying about v6-only operations if we can't get dual-stack = > working reliably. > > [I also find the knee-jerk "it's different from IPv4, the IETF is = > stupid" memes to be tiring. Identifying questionable design decisions = > with hindsight is hardly the exclusive domain of IPv6; there are = > tremendously more crufty workarounds in IPv4, and far more available = > hindsight. Complaining about IPv6 because it's different from IPv4 = > doesn't get us anywhere.]
Because the machines we deploy today may still be running in 10 years and we don't want them stopping the network going IPv6 only then. > Joe= > -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
