[jfr]

> But I think I've fed the troll enough.

I'm glad someone said it. This apenwarr seems to have some good karma here on HN, but IMO a lot of what he says is heavily misinformed and biased.

I had the urge to go point-by-point of his post and refute each with proper references and practical examples, but I then I realized that he is just a troll and that would be feeding him.

Some of his points, like about IPv6 addresses being too long and hard to memorize and that NAT is good/enough for users, basically points that he probably doesn't have much experience with network management and how IP works (specially IPv6 networks). This is strange coming from someone who was the original author of wvdial.

I have already argued here on HN why IPv6 addresses are easier to memorize: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804038

[joeyh]

So, Avery is just this guy, you know? It's not his fault if some of you want to fanboy on his every blog post.

I think he's right more often than he's wrong. (Although not in this article, which is nearly all wrong when it's not rehashing points that have been argued both ways for many years w/o a resolution.. hang out on NANOG for even a month and you'll see what I mean.) And I appreciate that he feels he has to get his half-baked thoughts posted now, before being swallowed by the Borg. Which will certainly change his opinion of some of this stuff if he ends up working with the ipv6 people @ Google.