Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

[Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

On 9/6/21 5:04 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG wrote:
> Well, I come from a software background, so in my world the whole 
> thing is held together by duct tape and string anyway ;)

Don't forget bailing wire.

> And while I can agree in principle, the nice thing about hacks is that 
> you can actually get those to *work*, whereas tilting at windmills to 
> get providers to do the right thing is much harder. So ideally you 
> could do both: deploy the hack(s) while waiting to get the proper 
> fix deployed a decade or two from now...

Yes, it's usually possible to get one or more hacks to work well enough 
to achieve the desired immediate goal -- $NextStreamingService to work 
on $SignificantOthersDevice.

But, how much time and effort ins required for each 
$NextStreamingService that comes down the pipe and the associated 
ill-will of $SignificantOther?

> Yeah, I do realise that that particular workaround probably has (had?) 
> an expiry date :(

When is the proper time to give up on hacks and take one, relatively 
simple, step backwards to avoid all subsequent time / effort / ill-will?



--
Grant. . . .
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