An example of what is wrong with the IETF's IPv6 documentation

2007-10-22 Thread michael.dillon
The following thread from ARIN's Public Policy Mailing List is an example of what is wrong with the IETF's documentation of IPv6. People are struggling to understand just how IPv6 works, not at the implementation level of detail, but at a higher level. What is mandatory, what is optional? What ar

Re: dickson-v6man-new-autoconf

2007-10-22 Thread Brian Dickson
Jeroen Massar wrote: [this is going to be a long and sort of whiny one, apologies in advance] No problem - succinct and on-topic long and whiny is fine. It's off-topic, dogmatic, or ad-hominem stuff that is not okay. Fortunately for us all, yours is not the latter. :-) Even if space is av

Re: dickson-v6man-new-autoconf

2007-10-22 Thread Jeroen Massar
[this is going to be a long and sort of whiny one, apologies in advance] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] >> As such, you as an ISP will get more than enough address space. > > Please now go and read draft-dickson-v6man-new-autoconf-00. I was not interested at all in reading it as your presentation

RE: dickson-v6man-new-autoconf

2007-10-22 Thread michael.dillon
> Of course, once you don't reserve a /44 for each customer, > because a /48 is plenty for nearly everybody, the 12 bits > turn into 16, making Brian's concerns far less concerning, > and probably no concern at all. Well said. I do not support extending 6MAN's mandate to include this draft.