Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

[Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>]

On 2011-02-28, at 09:51, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> I will be a lot more sympathetic about listening to arguments / explanations about this insanity the day that the 
> IETF filters out arp and ipv4 packets from the conference network and depends entirely on ipv6 for connectivity for 
> the entire conference.

It's hard to see v6-only networks as a viable, general-purpose solution to anything in the foreseeable future. I'm not 
sure why people keep fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working towards is a consistent, 
reliable, dual-stack environment. There's no point worrying about v6-only operations if we can't get dual-stack working 
reliably.

[I also find the knee-jerk "it's different from IPv4, the IETF is stupid" memes to be tiring. Identifying questionable 
design decisions with hindsight is hardly the exclusive domain of IPv6; there are tremendously more crufty workarounds 
in IPv4, and far more available hindsight. Complaining about IPv6 because it's different from IPv4 doesn't get us 
anywhere.]


Joe