[AusNOG] Prediction: Google et. al. may artificially penalise IPv4 clients

[Mark Smith]

On 2 May 2017 at 13:03, James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2017, Geoff Huston wrote:
>
>> SLAAC and RDNSS and DHCP6 is a chaotic mess.
>
> Perhaps not relevant for residential users, but there's one Android
> developer who refuses to support DHCPv6[1], which stops it working on some
> enterprise networks.

Why do you think DHCPv6 support is important to enterprise networks?
What do they need it for?


(For those on the IPv6 sidelines, I'm purposely ignoring the
difference between stateless and stateful DHCPv6 for the purposes of
this question.)

> And Windows 10 only added RDNSS support in the most
> recent update, which came out less than a month ago.
>
> [1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085 now requires a Google
> account for no good reason. I recommend reading it though if you like to
> see how one man can single-handedly prevent technical progress to more
> than a billion devices through sheer stubbornness.
>
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