----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Amante" <sh...@castlepoint.net> To: "IETF IPv6 Mailing List" <ipv6@ietf.org> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:37 AM Subject: Re: Flow Label support in the Node Requirements bis document
> > On Nov 3, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Thomas Narten wrote: > > John, > > > > This should not be a surprising or controversial change to the > > node-requirements document. The WG made the decision earlier that we'd > > leave out a reference to the Flow Label work because we didn't want to > > have node-requirements block waiting for it, but we would revisit if > > that work finished in time. > > > > It has. > > > > We should just make this change. There was never any doubt that node > > requirements would point to the updated Flow Label RFC. > > I completely agree. We should make the change now. Yes, make the change now. Planning on yet another revision is just confirming the impression that people get that IPv6 is not yet ready, will still be being tinkered with in two years time, so don't invest in it yet. Honest, I think that the tinkeritis that has kept the IPv6 revision industry busy for 15 years is a major bar to progress. Sometime we must stop and say, just do it. Tom Petch > > -shane > > > > If we say "do it later, when we rev the document again", we should be > > realistic in that that probably won't happen for at least another year > > and probably more like 2+ years. > > > > Thomas > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
