Notices by The Janx Devil (janxdevil@sfba.social)

@inthehands Looks like a narrow majority of the whole population comprises people who were eligible to vote and yet decided that voting to stop Trump wasn’t their bag. Hard to put a positive spin on that.

@jwz Reminds me that despair.com has long been my secret inspiration. The problem, of course, is that satire has the highest signal quality at low S/N ratios, but its receivers also draw the most power per bit.

@mmasnick When do they plan to support it? What have they prioritized below it?

@mmasnick When do they plan to support automatic account migration from Threads to other ActivityPub instances. Is that on their roadmap. Does anyone care?

@cks So a reason to hand out more than /64 to a subnet is you plan to delegate prefixes to routers that connect to they subnet. Typically not with a routing protocol, but with DHCP-PD.

@cks Reason people use DHCP-PD instead of a real routing protocol is it’s mostly zero human knowledge required for deploying a router for the delegated prefixes. You just plug it into the network, and it gets a prefix and routes for it. All the headaches are with the integration of the DHCP server with the actual routing protocol. This is why CableLabs and other insisted on building it that way, and it’s also why it’s a giant headache and doesn’t work well in any kind of generalized way. (We tried to fix it in the HOMENET working group in IETF, but the effort exploded in the worst kind of IETF stupidity that I still can’t discuss without anesthesia and muscle relaxants.)

@cks That “give each customer a /64 prefix” thing was the first big IPv6 fight I remember breaking out in V6OPS, because the address architecture originally said “give each customer a whole /48, so they basically never ever need to renumber until they become a transit provider” and CableLabs / Broadband Forum / et al basically said, “Why do we have to give them a whole /48 when we’re just going to renumber them at will and never let them run their own routing domains anyway?”

Some of them compromised and said “okay we’ll give them a /60 or maybe even a /56 if we’re especially generous” and then sabotaged every possible effort to make it possible for their customers to have anything other than a single /64.