Re: draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router-04 comments

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

Mar 27, 2009, at 07:38, Wes Beebee (wbeebee) wrote:
> In the case that a low-end switch does not support MLD, it's still a  
> better practice to have the CPE Router be the first hop into the home.

Yes, but most people setting up consumer gear in their home do not  
read IETF Best Current Practices RFCs before trying to plug the cables  
into the jacks on the sides of their boxes where the plugs more or  
less fit without hammering on them with whatever hard object they find  
at hand.

Some vendors of consumer gear seem to feel the need to make the  
process of connecting their various appliances together to comprise a  
functioning network into a university dissertation defense.  I think  
the more successful ones take a more subtle approach: they try very  
hard to make it as difficult as possible to connect devices together  
into a network that doesn't work.  When the links between the nodes  
are all CAT-5 cables with RJ-45 plugs on each end, that problem is non- 
trivial and shouldn't be hand-waved away as not worthy of attention.


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering