From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 09:05:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6376637B401; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic-naa.net (216-220-241-233.midmaine.com [216.220.241.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626ED43F93; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brunner@nic-naa.net) Received: from nic-naa.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nic-naa.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5IG2qiC048161; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:02:52 GMT Message-Id: <200306181602.h5IG2qiC048161@nic-naa.net> To: John Polstra In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:47:33 PDT." <200306181547.h5IFlXPu022709@strings.polstra.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:02:52 -0400 From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine cc: rwatson@freebsd.org cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 and me.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:05:45 -0000 well ... One day my mom (a lifer in the data center at the Naval Post-Graduate School in Monterey) called to tell me that the new Admiral had decided that the School would go all-MS ... Unlike Ada, the DoD has been fairly effective in wiping non-MS operating system products off its desk-top spindles. Is this a "good thing"? Nope. Is this going to change? Nope. Is it (and all the attached human investment) a defensible element in US National Security Infrastructure? Nope. Was the DoD always this stupid, or is it simply a cerebral hemmorage at DARPA a decade ago that is now ... profoundly visibile? Cheers, Eric