RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Pekka, While I would have liked to remove the mention of compatible addresses completely, deprecation as proposed by Bob is good enough for me. Thanks! Some might argue (and argued in the past) that there should be some health warnings about the use of mapped addresses (e.g., a reference to now-

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Kurtis, > New or updated implementations are not required to support this > address type. Existing implementations and deployments may continue > to use these addresses. Shouldn't we be a bit more explicit on what routers/hosts should do with these addresses when found? I don't think i

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Margaret, At 12:52 PM 03/16/2005, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Bob, Should there also be an upate to the IANA considerations section asking IANA to list this allocation as deprecated? Good question, I had not thought about that. What is currently listed on the IANA pages for IPv6 address space (

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kurtis Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Bob Hinden wrote: > > New or updated implementations are not required to support this > > address type. Existing implementations and deployments may continue > > to use these addresses. > > Shouldn't we be a bit

Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Kurtis Lindqvist
Bob, On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Bob Hinden wrote: > At last weeks IPv6 session in Minneapolis, the working group reached a > consensus to deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address". This email is > to verify this consensus on the mailing list Agree. and to review the proposed > text to

RE: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"

2005-03-17 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:58 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: >On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: >> Are RFC 2893 Para. 5.2 and 5.3 going to be updated accordingly? >> Otherwise, I have no objection. > >RFC2893 is going to be obsoleted any day now, by >draft-ietf-mech-v2-xx, so this is not a