NIST IPv6 document

[fergdawgster at gmail.com (Paul Ferguson)]

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> On 1/5/11 10:36 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
>>
>>> A bunch of very smart people have worked on IPv6 for a very long
>>> time, and justification for /64's was hashed out at extended
>>> length over the period of years.
>>
>> Very smart people can and do come up with bad ideas, and IPv6 is a
>> textbook example of this phenomenon, heh.  I certainly bear my share
>> of the responsibility for this state of affairs by not getting
>> involved, and leaving the heavy lifting to others.
>
> The reason for standing on the shoulders of giants should not be to piss
> on them.
>
>

I sense an unnecessary level of acrimony here.

No one is pissing on the work done by the many folks who have spent many
years hashing out v6 work.

But I think you are missing a larger point -- much of the security
community has been summarily dismissed in its concerns along the way.

$.02,

- - ferg

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