On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Among the many dummy things he mentions, this one is probably the best > :-) May be someone should tell him there are name resolution services > (and they existed even before the DNS)? But someone has to configure those things. That most likely will mean humans having more difficulty typing longer addresses accurately. Sometimes the resolution service is not working. Trouble shooting generally means digging down to lower levels, etc. Perhaps in some future time, we'll have applications which just do this stuff more effectively. In the interim, I can only be grateful for my USB memory stick as an improvement over postits as a mechanism for carrying IP addresses around. Given the sorry state of DHCP / DNS integration (I work with and around common products used on Windows and Linux) ... I find a lot of bogus data accrues over time ... I find automatic updates which can't cope with laptops which move from wired to wireless. I've discovered that DHCP (as deployed at least) can't provide a name suffix search list, etc. As a network operations groupie, I can understand why a network operator might not feel happy about having to embrace IPv6. They deal with what curretly is, not what might be. So rather that attacking folks out where the rubber meets the road, we need to listen so we can understand their root problems and then we need to get integrated solutions in place. Having one or more carefully planned IPv6 network operations working sessions over the next year and using the IETF meetings as the focal point is a good way to gather experience, clarify requirements for infrastructure tools, etc. Disrupting a meeting funded for a different purpose will/would be an offensive colossal waste of resources. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf