Keith,

On 2011-06-24 23:47, Keith Moore wrote:
...
> 1. Working groups often have strong biases and aren't representative of the 
> whole community.  Put another way, a working group often represents only one 
> side of a tussle, and working groups are often deliberately chartered in such 
> a way as to minimize the potential for conflict within the group.   So when 
> evaluating standards actions for the whole community, the consensus within a 
> working group means little.   In this particular case, v6ops heavily 
> represents the interests of operators (who are naturally interested in having 
> IPv6 run smoothly in the long term) and works against the interests of 
> applications developers (who are naturally interested in having transition 
> mechanisms that allow them to ship code that uses IPv6 and an IPv6 
> programming model regardless of whether the underlying network supports it).

I suspect that operators are *severely* under-represented on this
list ([email protected]) because it is very noisy and operators have other
priorities. Most of them are probably unaware of this discussion,
in fact.

   Brian
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