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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
Randy Bush wrote: > Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> equipment makers (as much as randy hates them) > > excuse?!?!? that is unjustified and uncalled for. > > vendors, like everyone else, will do what is in their best interests. > as i am an operator, not a vendor, that is often not what is in my best > interest, marketing literature aside. i believe it benefits the ops > community to be honest when the two do not seem to coincide. If the ops community doesn't provide enough addresses and a way to use them then the vendors will do the same thing they did in v4. It's not clear to me where their needs don't coincide in this case. there are three legs to the tripod network operator user equipment manufacturer They have (or should have) a mutual interest in: Transparent and automatic configuration of devices. The assignment of globally routable addresses to internet connected devices the user having some control over what crosses the boundry between their network and the operators. > randy >
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