The IETF has NOTHING to say anymore than any other body about any RIR policy. I want it to remain that way. IETF job is a standards body not a deployment body. /jim > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-shim6@xxxxxxx [mailto:owner-shim6@xxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 3:18 AM > To: Patrick W. Gilmore > Cc: shim6-wg; ppml@xxxxxxxx; global-v6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; IETF > Discussion; address-policy-wg@xxxxxxxx; v6ops@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [narten@xxxxxxxxxx: PI addressing in IPv6 > advances in ARIN] > > On 16-apr-2006, at 6:09, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > > Wow, Iljitsch, I have never lost so much respect so quickly for > > someone who was not flaming a specific person or using profanity. > > Congratulations. > > Well, that's too bad. But several years of trying to get a > scalable multihoming off the ground (flying to different > meetings on my own > dime) where first my ideas about PI aggregation are rejected > within the IETF mostly without due consideration because it > involves the taboo word "geography" only to see the next best > thing being rejected by people who, as far as I can tell, > lack a view of the big picture, is enough to make me lose my > cool. Just a little. > > > Back on topic, it is not just those 60 people - the "playground" > > appears to overwhelmingly agree with their position. I know I do. > > Don't you think it's strange that the views within ARIN are > so radically different than those within the IETF? Sure, > inside the IETF there are also people who think PI in IPv6 > won't be a problem, but it's not the majority (as far as I > can tell) and certainly not anything close to 90%. Now the > IETF process isn't perfect, as many things depend on whether > people feel like actually doing something. > But many of the best and the brightest in the IETF have been > around for some time in multi6 and really looked at the > problem. Many, if not most, of them concluded that we need > something better than IPv4 practices to make IPv6 last as > long as we need it to last. Do you think all of them were wrong? > > > I am sorry your technical arguments have not persuaded us > in the past. > > But I would urge you to stick to those, > > Stay tuned. > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf