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Re: Adding Option To Happy Eyeballs

From: Alan Cronin (alcronin) <alcronin_at_cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:57:05 +0000

Hi Björn,

After investigating the requirements with management at Cisco we
determined that it is not necessary to modify the happy eyeballs
algorithm. Thanks for your help with this.

Alan

On 09/09/2015 14:28, "curl-library on behalf of Björn Stenberg"
<curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se on behalf of bjorn_at_haxx.se> wrote:

>Alan Cronin (alcronin) wrote:
>> The requirement from the DoD is at:
>> http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/jitc_dri/pdfs/UCR_2013_Combined_signed.pdf -
>> section 5.2.1 - requirement IP6-000020. This will be switched via
>> configuration in the application.
>
>As I read them, those requirements say that nothing shall under any
>circumstances use IPv6 until "deliberately enabled as part of a
>deliberate transition strategy". End points, nodes and interfaces must
>support IPv6 for future use, but must have it disabled by configuration.
>
>That is exactly what -4 does. It is a configuration option for a
>dual-stack system to choose IPv4 over IPv6.
>
>I don't see any DoD requirement for inverse happy-eyeballs. Quite the
>opposite, in fact. Am I missing something?
>
>--
>Björn
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