Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

[Jima <nanog () jima tk>]

On 06/15/2011 11:45 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 15 jun 2011, at 18:39, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but the last update on this was RFC
> > 5006 I think, which is marked as "experimental", and I thought the
> > IETF still had a working group discussing it.
>
> You missed the upgrade to proposed standard:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6106
>
> > That is, I didn't think it was a finalized standard yet.
>
> The IETF rarely gets around to bringing something from proposed standard to standard. For instance, HTTP and BGP aren't 
> standards either.

 Thanks for the citation, right.  I also probably should also have 
cited 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_operating_systems 
-- the notable holdouts to RDNSS (that support DHCPv6) seem to be 
Windows, Solaris, AIX, and IBM i.  Unfortunate.

     Jima