On 7 nov 2007, at 11:51, Richard Pruss wrote:
How is doing that helpful in our evaluation of the request made by the DSL Forum along with the notion that DHCP is the right solution for this? The lack of ANY discussion of IPv6 coupled with the fact that DHCP is fundamentally incompatible with IPv6 as good as impunes this entire excercise.
I do not see DHCP as being "fundamentally incompatible" with IPv6.
If that is the case, then why is there a completely separate DHCPv6 protocol?
I'm not seeing any progress here. I think it's time to wrap all of this up and tell the DSL Forum that what they want can't be blessed by the IETF so either they're going to do what they're going to do without that blessing or they start PARTICIPATING in the IETF process in some way rather than restate the same thing until the IETF produces the desired result.
Please bear in mine that I am not the DSLForum and I would not project you irritation with me onto the DSLForum.
Irritation is irrelevant. What's relevant is that the IETF is a slow moving standards organization. Unless a lot of people are very wrong, any work started today will be relevant during the period in time where we run out of IPv4 addresses. The way I see it, that makes it necessary for any and all technologies that the IETF works on, and especially the ones that it starts new work on, must be able to work with both IPv4 and IPv6. Maybe the IPv6 part isn't going to be implemented immediately. That's a decision that each vendor / service provider has to make for themselves. But the IETF can't ignore IPv6, which, so far, pretty much all participants in this discussion have been doing.
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