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I am away on vacation and have missed all the fun...for what i matters, I think A is the way to go. That sends a clear signal to network managers, implementors etc. B and C will leave us in a vacuum. - - kurtis - On måndag, aug 4, 2003, at 20:06 Europe/Stockholm, Bob Hinden wrote: > [IPv6 working group chair hat on] > > I think the working group has been making good progress on replacing > site-local addresses and wanted to get feed back from the working > group on how we should move forward. This is not intended to directly > relate to the ongoing appeal of the working groups decision to > deprecate the usage site-local addresses, but to get feedback on how > to proceed. I think it is very important that we move forward on this > issue and not rehash what has happened in the past. > > We now have a combined local addressing requirements document > <draft-hain-templin-ipv6-limitedrange-00.txt>, a specific alternative > to site-local addresses draft > <draft-hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt> (accepted as a working > group item at the Vienna IETF), and will soon have a draft describing > why site-local addresses are being deprecated and doing the formal > deprecation (authors identified and outline discussed at the Vienna > IETF). Note that all of these documents will proceed through the > normal working group and IETF processes of last calls and review. > > I think legitimate questions have been raised about how the working > group should go about deprecating site-local addresses given their > maturity in the current specifications and use in deployed products. > Specifically should they be deprecated independently from having an > alternative solution available, at the same time an alternative is > available, or sometime after an alternative is available. A forth > alternative is to not replace site-local addresses in any form, but I > think the working group has made it clear that this is not a > reasonable alternative. > > I would like to hear from the working group on how we should proceed. > I think the choices are: > > A) Deprecate Site-Local addresses independently from having an > alternative solution available. This would mean that the working > group should treat the deprecation, and requirements and solution > documents outlined above independently from each other. If there was > no consensus on an alternative a replacement would not happen. > > B) Deprecate Site-Local addresses at the same time as a alternative > solution is agreed to. This would mean advancing both documents at > the same time and making them include normative references to each > other to insure that they were published at the same time. This would > result in the deprecation only happening if a consensus was reached on > an alternative. > > C) Deprecate Site-Local addresses after an alternative is defined, > standardized, and in operational practice. This would mean not > advancing a deprecation document until there was operational evidence > that the alternative was working and shown to be an improvement over > Site-Local addresses. > > Note: In the above choices "Deprecate Site-Local addresses" means > publishing an RFC that does the formal deprecation. > > Please respond to the list with your preference, or if there is an > alternative approach that is an improvement from the ones I outlined. > I hope that many of you will respond. > > Thanks, > Bob > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBPzj19KarNKXTPFCVEQJZzQCdHjcxPaPeKuBHmvNVqf0Y4DQfGewAoJpN BZoTYaGChp06+4mtxxKHZO+i =FDvu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
