Le 27 juil. 2011 à 00:11, james woodyatt a écrit : > On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Ronald Bonica wrote: >> >> Please post your views on this course of action by August 8, 2011. > > I remain convinced that this document is unnecessary and publishing it would > be silly, at best, and at worst, the simultaneous publication of > 6to4-to-historic alongside 6to4-advisory, which implicitly contradict one > another-- the latter says that 6to4 has an indefinite future and here's how > to keep everything operational in its presence on the Internet; the former > says 6to4 has no future, and it should not be used by anyone for any > purpose-- may turn out to be an embarrassment for IETF.
> IESG should feel very nervous about claiming there is consensus to publish > this draft. It does not appear to me like there is a rough consensus for it. +1 > > That said, I won't complain too loudly if this draft is published. It would > give me cover to ask my employers for 6to4 capability to be removed from > forthcoming products that I mainly work to support. I don't like taking > features away from users when there isn't a suitable upgrade path for them, > but the truth is that fielding problems from the field resulting from 6to4 > failure can be pretty tiresome, and I would welcome the cover from IETF to be > able to say, "Oh, you're still using 6to4? You should turn that off. It's > deprecated by IETF now, and accordingly, we no longer support it. Get native > IPv6 service." > > In other words, whether IESG means to convey this message or not, publishing > 6to4-to-historic alongside the existing 6to4-advisory-- without any clear > phase-out plan-- will pretty clearly imply to people like me that the > official phase-out plan is to remove 6to4 from the Internet, starting as soon > as vendors and operators are independently able to do so. "Start the engines > of destruction." > > > -- > james woodyatt <j...@apple.com> > member of technical staff, core os networking > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
