Re: FW: I-D Action:draft-narten-ipv6-statement-00.txt

Thomas,

I've read the draft. I find it very well balanced.  It is concise and
goes/gets straight to the point.  I think it should be adopted as an
IAB statement (after stabilisation), and to the minimum an IETF
statement.

With all its imperfections, progressive migration to IPv6
towards/until full deployment appears to be the best (if not the only)
feasable and realistic solution in the the short/medium term.

People who think it is a bad idea to do so, have the right and the
duty to bring up a constructive alternative in the same time frame.

FWIW, my humble comments on the draft in the enclosed document.

Mohsen.

 On 12 Nov, Thomas Narten wrote:
 | Hi.
 | 
 | A little more background/context that got me here.
 | 
 | My original thinking was to do something like what ICANN and the RIRs
 | have done, to bring awareness to the IPv4 situation and call for IPv6
 | deployment. I think the IETF can say a bit more about why, and the
 | threats to the internet architecture. (This came out of some
 | conversations I had at the recent ICANN meeting).
 | 
 | Maybe this could be an IAB statement. Maybe an IETF statement. I'm not
 | sure. But I think it would be useful to have an "IETF voice" also be
 | heard in the call for deployment. Especially since there are still
 | some going around saying "IPv6 is not needed." "IPv6 is still not
 | done, so don't deploy yet", etc. Does the IETF think that deploying
 | IPv6 is necessary and in the best interest of the Internet? If so,
 | reiterating that would be good.
 | 
 | I think though that it needs to be relatively short (which I probably
 | have already blown), and high-level, since it's really aimed at higher
 | level than your typical engineer. But the overal message needs to be
 | "think really hard about IPv4 exhaustion and what it means to your
 | business", "get serious about IPv6", and "it's done, so don't wait".
 | 
 | To find a good balance between "short" and also include a bit more
 | detail (especially on the implications of not seeing IPv6 deployed),
 | perhaps a short executive summary (which I didn't get into -00)
 | followed by a bit more detail (e.g., up to 3 pages or so) would do the
 | trick.
 | 
 | Thomas
 | 
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