Re: [sig-policy] [Sig-policy] prop-073:Automatic allocation/assignmentof
> We've worked on the vendors so that my MAC comes with IPv6 as part of
> the system
if you can work without your system automatically finding a dns server.
grrrrr
> Microsoft ship their software with IPv6 included
xp can not do dns over v6 transport. when i asked the v6 product
manager when the bug would be fixed, he said buy vista. that very day,
i bought a mac.
> the various flavours of *nix all have it even though almost no-one
> asks for it on any of these systems.
there are issues with all of them. but they are being worked.
> Junipers and Ciscos come with IPv6 as standard.
you have to pay for an extra license with juniper. and performance and
feature details are issues on most platforms.
and poor support on checkpoint is a serious problem at the enterprise
level (and firewalled enterprises within providers).
> Shouldn't we do the same for the addresses?
houston, the analogy has reached orbit. i will be most amazed when
cisco sends me free routers when i did not ask for them.
> In lots of places I deal with engineer time on IPv6 happens because
> people are curious about how IPv6 works and they start "playing" with
> it. In many cases if they try to create a business case to get IPv6
> resources from APNIC (and until recently getting IPv6 space would often
> change people's membership tier) then it's not going to happen.
i strongly agree that is a problem. so fix it.
> So I say that applying for address space is a barrier to some
yet you propose to give un-requested space to just those who have
already overcome that barrier, running apnic members.
randy