On 1/7/16, 7:39 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Doug Barton" <nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of do...@dougbarton.us> wrote:
>On 12/18/2015 01:20 PM, Lee Howard wrote: >> >> >> On 12/17/15, 1:59 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Matthew Petach" > >>> I'm still waiting for the IETF to come around >>> to allowing feature parity between IPv4 and IPv6 >>> when it comes to DHCP. The stance of not >>> allowing the DHCP server to assign a default >>> gateway to the host in IPv6 is a big stumbling >>> point for at least one large enterprise I'm aware >>> of. >> >> >> Tell me again why you want this, and not routing information from the >> router? > >C'mon Lee, stop pretending that you're interested in the answer to this >question, and wasting everyone's time in the process. You know the >answers, just as well as the people who would give them. I’m flattered that you think I know so much. Jared gave a useful reply, and I’m doing research before writing an internet-draft. > >>> Right now, the biggest obstacle to IPv6 >>> deployment seems to be the ivory-tower types >>> in the IETF that want to keep it pristine, vs >>> allowing it to work in the real world. >> >> There¹s a mix of people at IETF, but more operator input there would be >> helpful. I have a particular draft in mind that is stuck between ³we¹d >> rather delay IPv6 than do it wrong² and ³be realistic about how people >> will deploy it." > >On this topic the operator input has been clear for over a decade, and >yet the purists have blocked progress this whole time. The biggest >roadblock to IPv6 deployment are its most ardent "supporters." I don’t think IPv6 evangelists are in the way. I do think many enterprises don’t care about IPv6, and no protocol changes will make a difference. Some enterprise administrators wouldn’t mind deploying IPv6 as long as they don’t have to think about it. I think this is foolish: deploying a new Internet Protocol will not be simpler than deploying a new Spanning Tree or a new routing protocol. There are also enterprise administrators who have technical concerns; those are the ones I want to help. Lee
