Re: Mobility (Was: Re: A modest proposal for Harald)

2004-11-10 Thread Thomas Narten
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: But on mobility, I think we blew it. Not sure if you are referring to the mobile IP technology in particular, but because I suspect that the following is a bit of a secret to the larger community, mobile IPv4 is actually deployed and used. And end users mostly

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-08 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 11/6/2004 3:53 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: In IPv6, I see our job as standardizers to make sure the thing we have defined is well-defined enough to let it work, and then get the hell out of the way. Pardon me for saying so, but I think that represents the canonical problem with v6

RE: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-07 Thread Tony Hain
Dave Crocker wrote: On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:53:00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: So the death of IPv4 isn't going to happen with a bang. More like a protracted series of whimpers One of the great dangers of having a history of success is the way it blinds us to new ways to fail.

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Noel and Tony, thanks for offering such wonderful foils for a technical discussion! I'm going to do my best to rile the feathers of both of you, by appearing to take a strong stand, but actually remaining solidly perched on the fence between your positions, and manage to rile some so-far

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Harald, This the first time I agree with everything in an IETF mail. Thank you to be candid enough to have writen this. May I just suggest one tunning: Investigate rather than Create the mobile Internet? To preserve the possibility that there is not such a thing as a mobile, or a

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, While I agree with most of your analysis, I think there is a different view of address space exhaustion that might be more helpful and that there are several things the IETF can do to impede the spread of IPv6. The other side of the why bother deploying it argument is ok, we've decided

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread shogunx
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:36:08PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: Even if we ignore the address space issues entirely, we will slide smoothly from NATs in IPv4 to NATs in IPv6 or, more likely, ever more clever NATs and NAT technologies in

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:36:08PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: Even if we ignore the address space issues entirely, we will slide smoothly from NATs in IPv4 to NATs in IPv6 or, more likely, ever more clever NATs and NAT technologies in IPv4 unless we are successful

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread Dave Crocker
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:53:00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: So the death of IPv4 isn't going to happen with a bang. More like a protracted series of whimpers One of the great dangers of having a history of success is the way it blinds us to new ways to fail. In the case of IP

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Dave Crocker wrote: On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:53:00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: So the death of IPv4 isn't going to happen with a bang. More like a protracted series of whimpers One of the great dangers of having a history of success is the way it blinds us to new ways to fail. In the case

RE: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread Michel Py
Dave Crocker wrote: By way of noting one possible scanario that builds on today's reality and leads down a path that never adopts IPv6, As of today this _is_ the scenario. IPv6 is not even a buzzword anymore. I'll ask: What if users turned all leaf networks into private address space, so

A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-05 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand Date: Friday, November 05, 2004 1:20 AM I'm stepping down as IETF chair in March, and I am not a candidate for reappointment. Harald: I too would like to congratulate you on your successes, and suggest you have the opportunity to be the last

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 05 November, 2004 18:15 -0500 Noel Chiappa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too would like to congratulate you on your successes, and suggest you have the opportunity to be the last chair to preside over active work related to version 6 of the IP protocol suite. With the passage of

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-05 Thread Rob Austein
At Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:33:00 -0500, John C. Klensin wrote: Oh, my! The potential for a plenary food fight that has nothing to do with administrative reorganizations. How very encouraging and refreshing. ;-) The quality of the ballistic grub might be higher than usual at any rate, since