Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft

["George, Wes" <[e-mail]>]

On 4/16/14, 10:45 AM, "Dale W. Carder" <[e-mail]> wrote:


>Modern enterprise wireless controller
>networks are way, way more sophisticated than their wired counterparts
>due to the management of scarce RF time.  So, I don't buy any argument
>in this draft that there is a problem in this direction.

A fair point, but this extends beyond simply enterprise networks, and I’m
not willing to assume that all wireless networks will have a controller,
modern or otherwise. There are plenty of small and midsize networks that
are simply one or more APs all strung together on the same LAN. And given
how universally bad hotel and conference center networks usually are, I’m
skeptical that even those networks are consistently using a modern
controller, or if they are, it’s not set up particularly well. I don’t
know for sure whether DHCPv4 and related IPv4 junk traffic constitutes
anything more than a trivial amount of additional load on the RF if we
assume that the network is less than a certain size, but my thought was
that anything that contributes extra traffic on a network that is already
overloaded and performing poorly is something that should be removed if
reasonably possible. So I look at it as an opportunity for optimization if
we can come up with a way to do it that is worth the tradeoffs and
relatively transparent to network operators and users.

Thanks,

Wes George

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