On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Doug Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/28/2011 03:13, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> Second, publishing specifications, implementing them and waiting for >> users to adopt them takes a very, very long time. For DHCPv6 support, >> the time from first publication (2003) until wide availability (2011) >> has been 8 years. Are we ready to live in a half-baked world for >> another half a decade or more just so we can add this feature, while >> layer 2 filtering and VLANs more easily support similar >> functionality? > > 10-12 years ago I attempted to make 2 points to the IPv6 literati. First > that IPv6 would not be widely adopted in the enterprise until it had > full DHCP parity with v4. Second that the easiest way to do that would +1000 > be to declare all existing DHCPv4 options that are relevant to IPv6 as > existing in DHCPv6 by fiat, and to prevent new v6-only options from > using option numbers that already exist for v4 (and vice versa). I was > laughed out of the room on both counts. (If anyone wants more of the similarly folks keep laughing (or at least harumphing loudly) when enterprise folk say: "Hey, I use dhcp today for a large number of things, I can't NOT use it going forward, support the features in v4 dhcp that I use in your new v6 thingy." anyway, it seems to be getting slightly better, bolting more crud on ND so you can continue to say: "Yea, but you SHOULD use ...." is wasted breath. -chris
