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

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Wed, 22 April 2015 17:55 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
To: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world: clarification text
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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:17:26AM -0700, Joe Touch wrote:
> I.e., not using EHs is your prerogative, and not forwarding EHs to
> others is *their* prerogative, but castrating IPv6 for the entire
> Internet is not necessary.

I'm not sure what the benfefit is in insisting that IPv6 as currently 
standardized is The Only And Proper Way To Do Networking?  It was designed
20 years ago, and some of the assumptions from back then are turning out
to cause enormous amount of friction today.

"Forwarding packets with EH" is one aspect of this, "RA guard" is 
another one, and "correctly operating firewalls" (be it host-based or
traditional perimeter based) is a third one.

So what's wrong with just fixing the damn protocol, and doing something
productive with our time, like, "play with our kids"?

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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