It is not an IETF task or in the charter and it is being done elsewhere. This is not even a technical discussion IMO.
/jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Strauf (JOIN) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:14 AM > To: Fred Baker > Cc: Michel Py; Mark Smith; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IPv6 adoption behavior > > > > My crystal ball is as cloudy as anyone's. But I would > expect that it > > is all > > a matter of economics. > I very much agree with you on this point. The problem is that > right now it's too hard to sell IPv6 (in the literal sense of > the word). I believe that one of the reasons for this is that > some features that are theoretically distinctly easier to > realise with IPv6, e.g. easier end-to-end security or > de-NAT-ification because of bigger address space, need a lot > of improvement and development to be deployable in a > commercial surrounding. E.g., unless there are (simplified > speaking) stable and good interoperable IPsec implementations > for improved end-to-end security and a good number of > firewalls with stateful filtering to really replace current > v4 solutions that employ NAT, it will be difficult to > convince sales people that there actually is something about > IPv6 that can be sold as a feature that makes it better than > IPv4 (if we leave aside IPv4 address exhaustion for the moment). > > It would make sense to look into which implementations need > to be programmed first to create a market for IPv6 and to > write proposals on what kind of implementations that might > be. However, I believe that this is not the IETF's task, or is it? > > Cheers, > Christian > > -- > JOIN - IP Version 6 in the WiN Christian Strauf > A DFN project Westfälische > Wilhelms-Universität Münster > http://www.join.uni-muenster.de Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung > Team: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Röntgenstrasse 9-13 > Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-48149 Münster / Germany > GPG-/PGP-Key-ID: 1DFAAA9A Fon: +49 251 83 31639, Fax: > +49 251 83 31653 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
