Re: Comments on IPv6 Prefix Subdelegation

> From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
> Organization: People's Front Against WWW
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:21:50 -0400
> To: IETF IPv6 Mailing List <ipv6@ietf.org>
> Cc: <draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router@tools.ietf.org>,
> <draft-donley-ipv6-cpe-rtr-use-cases-and-reqs@tools.ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: Comments on IPv6 Prefix Subdelegation
> 
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Fred Baker wrote:
> 
>> Um, what does a router do? Look at the example in the text and ask
>> yourself if you want an average user (my canonical "average user" being
>> my daughter, who wanted me to come to her house to install a camera on
>> her computer so she could use it on Skype - "did you try plugging it
>> in?") manually installing routes in each of the four routers when they
>> could in fact learn them from each other directly?
> 
> So, looking at this from another angle, namely deployment. I'm a router
> engineer, I support the use of routing protocols as much as the next
> router engineer, but I think a good question to ask is whether most home
> CPE vendors think RIP for IPv6 is hard to implement, or if this is
> something they consider easy?
[jjmb] implementation difficulty is important as is making sure the
underlying hardware can support it.  Also we may be ok with a routing
protocol but what about someone who is not a router engineer?  Will it be
straightforward enough for everyone else to setup?
> 
> If it's easy to implement RIP for IPv6 then I'm a proponent for that
> model.
> 
> Fred, (just checking) the model you're advocating then is that DHCPv6-PD
> from the main home CPE (with WAN connection) hands out subnets which are
> then announced to all home gateways via RIP(v6) ?
> 
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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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