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Re: [v6ops] draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world: clarification text

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 21 April 2015 17:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world: clarification text
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On 4/21/2015 9:56 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 21/04/2015 16:51, Gert Doering wrote:
>> I'm fully at a loss to express my amazement in polite words, so I'm just
>> *out* of this discussion now.
> 
> Fully agreed on this + that this thread needs to end.  The lack of
> operational reality being displayed is pretty severe.

The Internet is not designed to optimize convenience or profit. The
functions in IPv6 are there for a reason; turning them off to simplify
life for vendors isn't useful to customers.

If you want something that is trivial to parse in hardware, you might
consider offering ATM equipment instead.

Joe

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