2. I stand by my earlier assessment that this document's requirements are
over-broad, and in fact so broad as to harm adoption. There may well be
operators or device implementers that seeing with such a high number of
requirements may shy away in terror and think that deploying IPv6 in a mobile
network is an impossibly high amount of work. That said, given that this
document says clearly that it is not a standard, and that compliance is not
required, the harm it does will be limited.
There may well be operators and device implementers that see the many
individual “IPv6” RFCs and shy away. Transitioning technologies are still
perceived as issues for the network.
If this cross-operator document states what is required on terminals to work in
all major/predictable IPv6 scenarios, then it is giving such people a view of
what a “healthy and robust” terminal implementation would consist of. If they
are able to deliver on these requirements then they can supply a terminal ready
for all business areas /all operator network scenarios.
(It certainly stops the feedback I’ve had from certain corners “that no other
operators are asking for IPv6”, and “what you are asking for is a single
operator roadmap which we won’t do”. That has been the reality here). So I
don’t see how a consolidated demand-side view from operators who are really
trying to introduce IPv6 in mobile can harm adoption in any way.
Regards,
Nick
From: v6ops [mailto:v6ops-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo
Colitti
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