IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

[iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum)]

On 21 okt 2009, at 22:23, Chris Adams wrote:

>> What we need is a thing that gives us what we need to
>> connect to the network (addresses, DNS servers) and then a pointer in
>> the form of an HTTP or HTTPS URL for all other configuration.

> You want to invent yet _another_ form of configuration management?

Short answer: no, life is too short and I have other problems that  
need solving.

Long answer: what we have now is a mess, if we want to clean up the  
mess we have to get it right, and putting new options in binary  
protocols is not right in any way, shape or form.