IPv6 woes - RFC

Mon Sep 6 22:47:36 UTC 2021

Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> writes:

> On 9/6/21 5:04 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG wrote:
>> Well, I come from a software background, so in my world the whole 
>> thing is held together by duct tape and string anyway ;)
>
> Don't forget bailing wire.

Heh, true, although I think the baling wire-to-string ratio tends to be
a bit higher in the US than over here in Europe :)

>> And while I can agree in principle, the nice thing about hacks is that 
>> you can actually get those to *work*, whereas tilting at windmills to 
>> get providers to do the right thing is much harder. So ideally you 
>> could do both: deploy the hack(s) while waiting to get the proper 
>> fix deployed a decade or two from now...
>
> Yes, it's usually possible to get one or more hacks to work well enough 
> to achieve the desired immediate goal -- $NextStreamingService to work 
> on $SignificantOthersDevice.
>
> But, how much time and effort ins required for each 
> $NextStreamingService that comes down the pipe and the associated 
> ill-will of $SignificantOther?
>
>> Yeah, I do realise that that particular workaround probably has (had?) 
>> an expiry date :(
>
> When is the proper time to give up on hacks and take one, relatively 
> simple, step backwards to avoid all subsequent time / effort /
> ill-will?

Well, this is more a question for the philosophy department I'd say... :)

-Toke