Re:fascism in an IPV6 world (Score 1)

What it comes down to is philosophy. It's that simple. It's autoconfiguration's socialism (turned communism?): "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need." - Karl Marx "...all will govern in turn and soon will be accustomed to no one governing." - Vladimir Lenin Autoconfiguration is the embodiment of these ideals. Routers have an ability which hosts need. No one says what different services different clients receive (or are told to ignore). The network management is from the bottom up - from the end-clients. No one governs. This, versus DHCP fascism: "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." - Bennito Mussolini Again, the embodiment of DHCP (4 or 6). The DHCP server is the state, and relays, clients, all of them must succumb to the will of the operator expressed through it. Now we may debate for years - centuries - perhaps to the end of time - about which of these philosophies (if any of them!) should be applied to social governance. But I submit that if you are running a network, and you plan to make money doing so, that you probably want to exert some fascism - to be your network's fascist dictator. You probably do not want to even risk the potential chaos if just one autoconfiguration client goes off the deep end and starts making trouble for others.