The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Thu Jun 16 23:47:30 UTC 2011


In message <AB27763F-4858-4E70-9825-C3093D8F1416 at delong.com>, Owen DeLong write
s:
> 
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> 
> > In a message written on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:22:12AM -0500, Jima wrote:
> >> Oh, oops; you did touch upon this.  You might want to let the people 
> >> who've implemented RDNSS in software know that the IETF is working on 
> >> it.  I'm sure that'll be a relief.
> > 
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but the last update on this was RFC
> > 5006 I think, which is marked as "experimental", and I thought the
> > IETF still had a working group discussing it. 
> > 
> > That is, I didn't think it was a finalized standard yet.
> > 
> > -- 
> >       Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
> >        PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
> 
> Many of the most widely used technologies on the internet do not become
> finalized standards at the IETF level until long after they have been in
> widespread use.
> 
> Owen

But very few are "experimental" and stay that way.  Many stay at
"proposed standard".

Mark
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