Re: IPv6 Books (Re: An example of what is wrong with the IETF's IPv6 documentation)

[David Malone <dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:30:50PM +0100, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
> I don't think you understand the situation. There are loads of people
> with many years of deep IPv4 experience under their belt. They have
> gotten used to understanding networks and being right when they make
> design tradeoffs.

FWIW, when Niall and I were writing, IPv6 Network Adinistration,
these were the people we were trying to target, so we tried to
describe IPv6 features in terms of things that IPv4 network engineers
and sysadmins would understand. I think Iljitsch's book takes a
similar tack.

I was one of the tech reviewers for Silvia's second book, and it
gives wider coverage of protocol details, but has a less operational
flavour.

I have Marc's network implementation book, itojun's programming
book and Jinmei et al.'s stack implementation book on my to-read
list, but sadly I haven't got to them yet.

	David.

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