Hi,

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2014, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > So I'd keep the list of supported protocols as small as possible - and 
> > stick to IP protocols.  ISIS is great for ISP environments, but does not 
> > nicely adapt to a unix environment where the kernel has no idea about 
> > ISO/OSI protocols and you have to do everything via raw sockets.  Which 
> > would be a fairly typical environment for a CPE router.
> 
> This is actually a feature, the fact that ISIS doesn't require IPv6 to be 
> up and running before it can get itself started and you know the topology 
> of the home.

Uh, what?  So the benefit of ISIS (over ISO/OSI transport) in the home would 
be "you can have IPv4 in your homenet, without having IPv6"?  I truly can't 
see a reason why this would be useful in the time frame when this would be
ready - and it's also out of scope of what the homenet architecture concerns 
itself with.  Which, as far as I understand, is "make IPv6 work right, and 
do not damage IPv4", while excluding IPv4-only scenarios.


> How one values this feature is obviously up to each individual.
> 
> Oh, and the other email you sent. Irony doesn't help make your point. That 
> email was quite confusing about what point you were actually trying to 
> make.

Then it was quite clear: I can't see a point in doing protocol work to
solve something in a fashion that would be very very very similar to an
already-existing protocol that has mature implementations.

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

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