On Dec 24, 2013, at 8:15 AM, Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org> wrote:
Why? You say, "The protocol suite doesn't meet my needs; I need default gateway in DHCPv6." So the IETF WG must change for you to deploy IPv6. Why?
Why must the people who want it justify to _you_? This is fundamental part I've not gotten about the IPv6 crowd. IPv4 got to where it is by letting people extend it and develop new protocols and solutions. DHCP did not exist when IPv4 was created, it was tacked on later. Now people want to tack something on to IPv6 to make it more useful to them. Why do they need to explain it to you, if it doesn't affect your deployments at all? Some of us think the model where a DHCP server knows the subnet and hands out a default gateway provides operational advantages. It's an opinion. And the current IPv6 crowds view that not having a default route and relaying on RA's is better is also an opinion. We've spent years of wasted bits and oxygen on ONE STUPID FIELD IN DHCP. Put it in their, and let the market sort it out, unless you can justify some dire harm from doing so. What is more important fast IPv6 adoption or belittling people who want to deploy it in some slightly different way than you did? -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/