Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [homenet] pushing the bird faster

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@iki.fi>wrote:

> On 8.5.2013, at 12.20, Steven Barth <cyrus@openwrt.org> wrote:
> > On 08.05.2013 11:07, Dave Taht wrote:
> >> Unless you wish to maintain these modifications forever, it is helpful
> >> to seek consensus with the mainline developers of these tools to push
> >> your patches in a mutually acceptible form. I would suspect that dnsmasq
> >> and odhcp6c devs would be amiable to a discussion at the very least.
> > Speaking for odhcp6c I have looked into the homenet changes yesterday
> and I don't see it as a big hassle to merge these features into the main
> branch at some point once they have an official IANA number and the specs
> are somewhat stable.
> >
> > Also feel free to contact me if you are thinking about getting anything
> IPv6-related upstream to OpenWrt and we can discuss that or you can of
> course also use the official channels, mailing lists and so on.
>
> That's underlying problem with both dnsmasq and odhcp6c forked changes -
> we use IOS-specific prefix class option # that is NOT from IANA, and I'd
> rather not see it in wide use for obvious reasons.
>

I have few problems with IOS setting a default standard, open source
following it, and the IANA blessing it later. :) That said, what is the
status of the IANA application? Link?

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Dave Täht

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