Historic is appropriate when we want to make a statement about the appropriateness of the technology. However, we probably enter a huge bureaucratic entanglement of what happens to all of the docs that normatively reference 791, 792, and 793. And that's another question, what precisely DO we make Historic? Eliot On 9/16/09 5:36 PM, IETF Member Dave Aronson wrote: > David Harrington <ietfdbh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> As part of declaring IPv6 a full standard, would we also declare IPv4 >> obsolete or Historic? >> > Given IPv6's rate of adoption so far, how soon do you think IPv4 will > *really* be in so little use as to be obsolete or historic? With the > growth rate of the Internet and home/office networking, and IPv6's > adoption rate, I'd be willing to bet that the number of IPv4 > installations is *growing* per year, not shrinking, and that that > trend will continue for at least the next several years, barring any > highly unusual events. > > -Dave > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf