On 12/18/07 at 1:32 PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
Reporters come to our meetings and attend plenaries.
There are members of the reporter community, or their editors,
who like only those stories that they can sensationalize. For
them, this little "outage" results in one of two possible
headlines:
(i) Not even IETF can get IPv6 to work seamlessly.
(ii) IPv6 is so complicated that only the IETF experts,
struggling mightily, can get it to work in a drop-in
environment.
Simply reporting on this thread would lend itself to some interesting
headlines, with minimal sensationalization:
"Proposal that the IETF use IPv6 exclusively for 60 minutes causes
widespread panic"
I really don't have a strong opinion on the proposal itself; I can
live without network connectivity for an hour (or I can cheat and use
my EVDO card for an hour :-) ). But this entire conversation has been
exceedingly informative:
a) As an Apps guy, this talk does not bode well for how seriously
IPv6 has been taken in getting basic infrastructure issues solved
such that applications can run.
b) As a user who runs my own little corner of the network, this
doesn't make me sanguine about being able to get my basic services up
and running under IPv6 anytime soon.
I'm somewhere between depressed and amused.
pr
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Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
Qualcomm Incorporated
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