Well, most systems implemented DHCPv6 support a long time ago. Despite other efforts to have Google support DHCPv6 for Android, nothing has happened. There is nothing wrong with using NANOG to call out a major vendor for this, even if they are a significant sponsor.
Just because you don't agree with the direction of the discussion doesn't mean it has no value. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Ca By <cb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <hen...@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-/. > > > > > > > -- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System T: 207-561-3526 F: 207-561-3531 MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network www.maineren.net
