RE: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-16 Thread michael.dillon
I'm not particularly interested in getting into a Yes it is! No it isn't! debate. I will merely point out that IPv6 has been implemented and is being deployed as IPv4 with more bits. If more people would get involved in developing a best practices document for IPv6, perhaps through a

RE: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-16 Thread michael.dillon
I wonder if even writing a BCP about this even makes sense at this point, because the application writers (or authors of the references the application writers use) may never see the draft, or even be concerned that it's something they should check for. I think that it does make sense

Re: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14-sep-2007, at 22:34, Greg Skinner wrote: When routing connectivity could be restored quickly, the maintained state at both ends of the TCP connection would allow the application to proceed normally. However, this practice doesn't seem to have made it into the application-writing

Re: RFC 1345 mnemonics table not consistent with Unicode 3.2.0

2007-09-16 Thread Frank Ellermann
John C Klensin wrote: Ned Freed wrote: [...] To the extent RFC 1345 is problematic, it is because its domain of applicability is quite limited. But within that narrow domain it actually can perform a useful function. Agreed. And perhaps that suggests a way forward if people are willing

Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Andrews
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:17:21PM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:08:30AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: interestingly, some software vendors ship w/ license keys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise level stuff. not

Re: ULA-C (Was: Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it)

2007-09-16 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Roger, On 9/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/ula-global.txt has my thoughts on this, which i've appropriated without permission from hinden, huston, and narten and inaccurately failed to remove

Re: ULA-C (Was: Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it)

2007-09-16 Thread Jari Arkko
Lixia, I'm just catching up with this thread today: If I summarize my understanding from the above in one sentence: there seems a perceived difference between PI and ULA-C prefixes, which, as far as I can see, does not exist. Whether a unique prefix is/not globally routable is determined by