Re: IPv6 standard?

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On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Steve Crocker wrote:

There are hundreds of millions of IPv4 computers and perhaps millions of individual IPv4 transport networks, large and small.

Here are some useful points along the way from pure IPv4 to pure IPv6.

A. Every new computer is able to talk IPv6

B. Every transport is able to talk IPv6, i.e. every network from tier 1 ISPs down through wifi hot spots and every internal corporate network

C. Every major service, e.g. Google, CNN, Amazon, is reachable via IPv6

D. Every new computer is not able to talk IPv4

E. A substantial number of transports are unable to talk IPv4

F. A substantial number of major services are not directly accessible via IPv4 (but, of course, will be accessible via gateways)


You've missed a couple of  key points:

* IETF declares IPv4 historical
* IETF declares IPv6 a full standard
* IETF further reduces focus on IPv4 in new protocol work (perhaps addressing it only through gateways?)
* IETF stops referencing IPv4 in new protocol work
* ... and probably a few more along these lines

These can arguably be done in several orders, and there's an open question as to how they interleave with your points.

Remember that the IETF cannot directly influence your checkpoints. The only ones we can really control are the ones that determine how the IETF behaves.

To paraphrase my friend who is a psychotherapist: "We can't control how the world feels about IPv6. At best, we can control how we feel about it."

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Dean Willis
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