Here is my understanding: 1. The shortage of IPv4 addresses will increasingly cripple the communication effectiveness of the Internet, either directly or indirectly through ubiqitous NATting. 2. As a replacement for IPv4, IPv6 is the only game in town. We did it. 3. Unless we want the ITU to eat our dogfood, the IETF needs to get serious about discovering and solving the remaining technical problems implicit in IPv6 deployment. 4. In recent years, a large fraction of IETF activity has moved from our original and core concern, the network and transport layers, to (more profitable?) issues at the application layer and layer 2.5. It is time to take the network layer seriously again. 5. The recent messages containing reasoned calls for advance planning and coordination of an IPv6 connectathon are all important and need to be heeded. 6. There is a social engineering as well as a technical engineering problem here. 7. This discussion has already been useful. Bob Braden _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf