Re: Deployment vs the IPv6 community's ambivalence towards large providerss

[Masataka Ohta]

Vint;

> I hope I will be forgiven for adding another message to this 
> long thread.
> 
> 1. we have to discuss the practical problems of deploying IPv6 and especially
> a bunch of corner cases or it won't work.
> 
> 2. there are still a lot of "holes" in my opinion that need filling in any
> credible deployment scenario - and we'll learn the most from trying to get
> serious, operational IPv6 networks up and running. 

That's an easier half of the problem.

When I visited a major router vendor in last June and asked about
IPv6 support, the answer was that it will be supported IPv6 at the
end of next year, because it involves a lot of software work,
even though their hardware is ready.

They, then, asked me which of the complex feaures of IPv6, such as
tunneling or NAT-like capability, should be supported.

> 3. the ietf general list is probably the wrong place for further extended
> discusssion

Maybe. But it means that entire IETF is the wrong place. Here is a
better place than IPNG WG committee list, where removal of features
can not be accepted.

                                                        Masataka Ohta