On Oct 16, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Kevin Oberman <ober...@es.net> wrote: >>> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:40:41 +1030 >>> From: Mark Smith >>> <na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> >>> >>> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:31:22 +0100 >>> Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-6man-prefixlen-p2p-00.txt >>>> >>> >>> Drafts are drafts, and nothing more, aren't they? >> >> Drafts are drafts. Even most RFCs are RFCs and nothing more. Only a >> handful have ever been designated as "Standards". I hope this becomes >> one of those in the hope it will be taken seriously. (It already is by >> anyone with a large network running IPv6.) > > And none of the listed IETF "full standards" are IPv6 related. That > seems a little bit odd to me given that everyone is supposed to have > implemented them by now. > > Bill Bogstad
IPv4 was much further along in deployment than IPv6 is now when the first IPv4 STDs were published as STDs. Usually RFCs bake for quite a while in the real world before becoming STDs. Owen
