Behcet, You're still not giving any *reasons* why this should be a BCP. The IETF doesn't standardise implementations, or even APIs, so I don't see why we would make this a normative document.
Getting a good library out under the BSD license would do a lot more than SHOULDs and MUSTs in an RFC, imho. Regards Brian On 2009-12-05 12:14, Behcet Sarikaya wrote: > Brian, in view of changing times, I do think that it is recommended to > republish this valuable RFC as a BCP, possibly with some small changes, so > starting with 4038bis. > > --behcet > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> >> To: Behcet Sarikaya <sarik...@ieee.org> >> Cc: ipv6@ietf.org >> Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 4:40:28 PM >> Subject: Re: Proposal to change status of RFC 4038 >> >>> There is concern that this is an informational RFC. >> I don't understand that. Why would anyone care? >> >> I do have one concern, though. It would be much better if the >> code fragments were clearly under the current regime (i.e. >> simplified BSD license from the IETF Trust). >> >> Apart from that, are there any major technical concerns that >> would justify an update? >> >> Regards >> Brian >> >> (P.S. I do think this is a very valuable RFC!) >> >> >> >> On 2009-12-05 10:46, Behcet Sarikaya wrote: >>> Hello 6manners, >>> We are hearing the news that RFC 4038 has started to be used by app >> developers for IPv6 transition. See recent softwire discussions. >>> There is concern that this is an informational RFC. I think that IETF can >> reissue it as a BCP and 6man is probably the right place. >>> Regards, >>> >>> Behcet >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >>> ipv6@ietf.org >>> Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
