Hello, A statement about IP addressable mobile nodes may be useful ? (since we expect billions of them). Regards, pars On Nov 12, 2007 5:30 PM, Thomas Narten <narten@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > A little more background/context that got me here. > > My original thinking was to do something like what ICANN and the RIRs > have done, to bring awareness to the IPv4 situation and call for IPv6 > deployment. I think the IETF can say a bit more about why, and the > threats to the internet architecture. (This came out of some > conversations I had at the recent ICANN meeting). > > Maybe this could be an IAB statement. Maybe an IETF statement. I'm not > sure. But I think it would be useful to have an "IETF voice" also be > heard in the call for deployment. Especially since there are still > some going around saying "IPv6 is not needed." "IPv6 is still not > done, so don't deploy yet", etc. Does the IETF think that deploying > IPv6 is necessary and in the best interest of the Internet? If so, > reiterating that would be good. > > I think though that it needs to be relatively short (which I probably > have already blown), and high-level, since it's really aimed at higher > level than your typical engineer. But the overal message needs to be > "think really hard about IPv4 exhaustion and what it means to your > business", "get serious about IPv6", and "it's done, so don't wait". > > To find a good balance between "short" and also include a bit more > detail (especially on the implications of not seeing IPv6 deployed), > perhaps a short executive summary (which I didn't get into -00) > followed by a bit more detail (e.g., up to 3 pages or so) would do the > trick. > > Thomas > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf