Re: [v6ops] Implementation Status of PREF64

[Mark Smith <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, 07:04 Simon, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Owen DeLong <owen=[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >> An enterprise network might deploy its own DHCPv6 .apk's into
> employee's Android smartphones, for that particular enterprise network.
> >
> > Most enterprises expect this feature to be built into the OS.
>
> Indeed, the days of having to install pieces of software to get BASIC
> network functions is so ... last century. Brings back not so fond memories
> of having to pick an IP implementation (actually, pick a protocol and
> implementation), and then juggle with your load order to maximise hi-mem in
> DOS, and all that stuff.
>
> How long is it now since anything without IPv4 built in would be
> considered “broken” - and yet we’re still considering (or at least, some
> people are suggesting) that IPv6 should be held back to how networking was
> several decades ago !
>
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but I have seen no argument against
> Android including standards compliance


DHCPv6 is not required. See BCP 220.




 and a working DHCPv6 client other than : “it’s not how we want people to
> be using the devices they have bought AND SUPPOSEDLY OWN and we’re big
> enough to force our rules on the world”.
>
> Sorry Lorenzo, but basically the arguments put forward against allowing
> DHCPv6 client on Android come down to “but we want people to use them THIS
> way regardless of how they actually want to use it”. Dressed up a bit in
> the name of “protecting users” which is rich given that Google’s primary
> business is in amassing and profitting from people’s personal information -
> so perhaps it’s a more a case of “can’t have others abusing users’ privacy
> - that’s our job”.
>
> Just saying how it looks.
>
> Simon
>
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