John, I think Brian and Joel both made excellent points about why this suggestion is probably sub-optimal, and I won't presume to add to the elegance of their arguments on those points other than to say that I agree with them. To address your concern about whether or not vendors are paying attention to this discussion, and why historic status is substantively different than "off by default, no really, OFF BY DEFAULT," I'll put my FreeBSD developer hat on for a minute and tell you that we definitely do pay attention to stuff like this, and whereas we already have it off by default (and have for some time) moving it to historic gives us the cover we need to remove the code at some point down the road when that's appropriate. That's an extremely important distinction, and one of the reasons that as a "member" of v6ops I ultimately came down in support of the 2-document strategy. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf