On 2/1/2011 3:32 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 1 feb 2011, at 21:03, Dave Israel wrote:
People want to engineer their networks they way they want to. Let them. If
their way is stupid, then they'll have the stupidly engineered network they
wanted.
The problem is that their stupidity impacts ME. If I want to talk to Microsoft
from behind a< 1500 byte MTU link: too bad, not going to happen. They stupidly
send packets with DF=1 but filter incoming packet too big messages.
So I'm all in favor of the IETF blocking stupidity whenever possible.
I completely agree that, when interoperating, you have to follow the
rules, and I would (naively) hope that "customers cannot reach me
because of my configuration choice" is sufficient incentive to fix the
problem for the majority of network operators. But what I am arguing
against was the stance some people take against DHCPv6, or prefix
lengths longer than /64, or other internal-to-my-network,
why-should-you-care choices I might make. Telling me it is dumb is
fine; implementing software/hardware/protocols such that I can't do it
simply because you think it is dumb is a problem.
-Dave
