Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Mohsen Souissi
On 15 Oct, Jeroen Massar wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | | [aggregated mail :)] | | Mohsen Souissi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > On 15 Oct, Jeroen Massar wrote: | | | > | Apparently there is work being done on this, but it is not very public. | > | > ==> AFNIC (French R

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Haberman
rule for the WG. Thanks /jim -Original Message- From: Mans Nilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:33 AM To: Mark Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ? Subject: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated

RE: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [aggregated mail :)] Mohsen Souissi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 Oct, Jeroen Massar wrote: > | Apparently there is work being done on this, but it is not very public. > > ==> AFNIC (French Registry) has been running an official IPv6-capable > nam

RE: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Bound, Jim
hanks /jim > -Original Message- > From: Mans Nilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:33 AM > To: Mark Smith > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is > good enough ? > > > Subject: Will

RE: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread John Gregson
Dear Mr Py, Sorry, could you run that past me one more time ..? J On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Michel Py wrote: > Mark, > > > Mark Smith wrote: > > a) Is IPv4 going to be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good > > enough? If so, are the related IPv4 NAT RFCs also going to be > > deprecated

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Mohsen Souissi
On 15 Oct, Jeroen Massar wrote: [...] | | > That's all protocol stuff. Hopefully all of | > this can be fixed in the not too distant future. But there there is | > another extremely important issue that (in my not so humble opinion) | > must absolutely be fixed before making any such statement:

RE: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Soohong Daniel Park
> Client access and for some also hosting is taken care of by > using tunnelbrokers and other transition mechanisms. ISP's > should start enabling IPv6 on their native networks where > possible and start providing servers with IPv6 connectivity. > Then it is at least possible for clients to use it.

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On Wednesday, October 15, 2003 14:55:58 +0300 Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Failed to produce a multihoming solution for smaller enterprises which > would not need an AS number otherwise, but whose about only (clear) option > is to go and get an AS number for their site multihoming

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Måns Nilsson wrote: [...] > > There are now less than 35000 free AS numbers. If such a policy would be > > adopted there would be a huge land rush, depleting the AS number supply > > and forever polluting the IPv6 routing table with 64000 or so routes, > > most of which don't n

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:10:39 +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A very good property of IPv6 is that we get to avoid some of the mistakes > that were made with IPv4. One of those mistakes was giving out addresses > in ways that didn't scale. History teaches us t

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14 okt 2003, at 17:32, Mans Nilsson wrote: b) Is IPv6 good enough yet ? I think so. There are valid concerns on two things; multihoming and address allocation procedures. There seems to be strong forces among the researchers and vendors advocting that we halt and wait for the Grail of multiho

RE: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 14 okt 2003, at 16:13, Mark Smith wrote: > > > A little later, it occured to me that maybe what the market might be > > missing is a statement from the IETF, IESG and/or IAB, that IPv6 is > > now *ready*, and can be deployed i

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-15 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14 okt 2003, at 16:13, Mark Smith wrote: A little later, it occured to me that maybe what the market might be missing is a statement from the IETF, IESG and/or IAB, that IPv6 is now *ready*, and can be deployed in production via the available transition mechanisms, slowly replacing IPv4 (+ N

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-14 Thread Carlos Friacas
My 2 (euro-)cents: > That brings to my mind two questions > > a) Is IPv4 going to be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough? No. > If so, are the related IPv4 NAT RFCs also going to be deprecated at that > time ? No. > b) Is IPv6 good enough yet ? No. Still a lot of work to be done.

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-14 Thread Fred Baker
At 07:13 AM 10/14/2003, Mark Smith wrote: A little later, it occured to me that maybe what the market might be missing is a statement from the IETF, IESG and/or IAB, that IPv6 is now *ready*, and can be deployed in production via the available transition mechanisms, slowly replacing IPv4 (+ NAT)

RE: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-14 Thread Michel Py
Mark, > Mark Smith wrote: > a) Is IPv4 going to be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good > enough? If so, are the related IPv4 NAT RFCs also going to be > deprecated at that time ? IMHO it's not a matter of being good enough, it's a matter of how many IPv4 hosts are still up. The IETF deprecating

Re: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-14 Thread Mans Nilsson
Subject: Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ? Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:43:36PM +0930 Quoting Mark Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > That brings to my mind two questions > > a) Is IPv4 going to be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough? If so, are the > related IPv4 N