Re: Last Call: <draft-arkko-ipv6-only-experience-04.txt> (Experiences from an IPv6-Only Network) to Informational RFC

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Wes: I understand your concern, and it certainly has given us pause when speaking about these results in different forums.

But at the end of the day, I think running code, real world situation, and useful information for the reader trump such concerns. I think we should be open about the issues, and mark the document clearly as a snapshot. Perhaps highlight this aspect even in the section that talks about, e.g., games. But I think it would take away from the value of this document if we didn't report the issues. And I'm the guy who wants IPv6-only to succeed and who sells gear for it. If I'm ready to talk about this, I think the IETF should be able to publish an RFC about it, too.

(Also, waiting is not a real option because we can't necessarily keep repeating tests all the time, and because there will always be some things that are broken. When all the widely used things are up and running there will be some less widely used things that no one bothered to fix. When those are up and running there will be some rarely used things that will never be upgraded and which might not even be used. And so on. And no, this is not a problem because there will always be breakage in the internet. There are plenty of web sites that cannot be contacted even on IPv4, plenty of software that no longer works even on the IPv4 Internet because it can't deal with NATs, etc.)

Jari

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