% Hogwash.
Actually, the correct response here is "Sheep Dip" :)
% | we can do the following:
% |
% | a) move one proposal somewhere else on the standards track
%
% You actually mean off the standards track.
Well, we could do that too. ISIS/OSPF ended up spending
-lots- of time at different places on the stds track.
For the AAAA/A6 debate that is tabled, I'd rather see
one moved off the stds track to experimental.
% | Because I beleive that A6 has enough potential, I'm willing
% | to have it move to experimental, giving developers and
% | operators more time to understand its impact. I think that
% | long term, its benefits will overshadow AAAA and that a
% | migration plan can be deployed.
%
% No, assuming you're right, long term what will happen is that people
% will lament that the wrong decision was made in 2001, but regret that
% there's no way to transition any more, the combination of resolvers
% doing only AAAA lookups, and servers providing only AAAA records, means
% there's no clean way to get out from under (sure, servers could provide
% A6 records as well, but they'll have to keep providing AAAA records
% forever to keep the old resolvers happy, and resolvers could do A6 lookups
% but they'd have to fall back on doing AAAA so they can find names that
% are only available that way - given that AAAA would have to remain, and
% resolvers would have to do lookups of it, just for practical reasons,
% there's no way to actually transition to A6).
Cynic. (nee realist?)
%
% kre
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--bill
