RE: [RRG] GSE History

["Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Li [mailto:tony.li@tony.li] 
>Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:23 PM
>To: Templin, Fred L; 'Brian E Carpenter'; 'RJ Atkinson'
>Cc: 'IRTF Routing RG'
>Subject: RE: [RRG] GSE History
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>|>Of course, you also have to wonder just how much inertia there 
>|>is when the
>|>predominant implementation can't do DNS over v6.  ;-)
>|
>|"can't do", or didn't see the value and chose not to do?
>|(NB: AFAICT, the implementation can still resolve AAAA's
>|just fine...)
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>Dunno.  You're asking about motivations, and those are opaque 
>to me.  All I
>know is that those of us that have to use that OS suffered when v4 was
>disabled at the last IETF technical plenary.  This was why...

Somehow, I think this may not have come as a major surprise
wrt the way the experiment was conducted?

>From being in software development, my best guess is that the
development
>here didn't quite make code freeze.  Tho I'm surprised it hasn't shown
up in
>a service pack.

IPv6 implementations have been actively developed and well
understood for a long time, so there has to be a reason. I
think you are right though that to try to guess it would be
to try to devine motivations...

Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com

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>Tony
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