Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Apr 14, 2014, at 11:51 PM, Owen DeLong <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Calling it the wrong thing while advocating an even more wrong thing is equally absurd.

When I call it the wrong thing, I mean that it doesn't work well (and I explained that).  In practice, not in theory.   You are claiming that adding the capability to shut off DHCPv4 is even more wrong, but you haven't explained why.   So when we weigh the two considerations next to each other, one of which is substantiated by everybody's daily experience of Linux networking, and the other of which is purely speculative and not substantiated by any reasoning that would lead us to think it is true, then despite the fact that, if it were true, it would be worse, we should, logically, weigh the other consideration more heavily.

For comparison, suppose you were to assert that there's a significant risk of giant bunnies leaping out into the road when driving on any interstate highway in the U.S.  We could definitely say that if such a statement were true, it would require us to change our driving habits.   And yet we likely would not change our driving habits, because you have given us no reason to think it's true.

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