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 >

Will IPv4 be formally deprecated when IPv6 is good enough ?

2003-10-14 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, A recent discussion came up on the ipv6 mailing list regarding why the market picked up IPv4 NAT, initially asked by Geoff Huston, and posted to the list by Pekka Savola. Archives of the discussion are available at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ipng&m=106389565013129&w=2 and http://mar