[c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Fri Aug 28 09:23:41 EDT 2009


Hi,

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:11:25AM -0400, TJ wrote:
> >Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> writes:
> >
> >> Yes.  IETF really botched that "everything is automatic but we don't
> >> tell you how to discover DNS" part.
> 
> In every design there are tradeoffs that are made ... 
> and with the benefit of hindsight it is easy to point at the wrong decisions.

It's very hard to find a reasonable argument why "not considering DNS
when designing autoconfiguring networks" could be called a *tradeoff*.

Tradeoff against what?  "Mostly unusable result" vs. "invest some brains"?

gert

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