Given the 5-year lead time to get a protocol suite done in the IETF, why would 
we start by looking backward?

On Jun 30, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Ralph Droms wrote:

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> On Jun 30, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Melinda Shore <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 6/29/11 8:32 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
>>> However it does not follow that home networks need NAT or private address 
>>> space.  Those are hacks of the 1990s.  They always were shortsighted, and 
>>> they turned out to be an operational disaster.  We can do better.
>> 
>> We can and should, but it's pretty clear that if the IETF
>> were good at evangelizing we wouldn't be in this situation
>> in the first place.  The focus really needs to be on producing
>> good, secure protocols that work on the networks we've got.
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> ...or the networks we can see coming in the near future.  ZigBee Alliance is 
> driving an IPv6-based multi-link architecture through planned deployments of 
> SE2.0 by several utilities.  BBF and CableLabs both expect IPv6, end-to-end 
> connectivity 
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> Homenet will avoid breaking existing IPv4 deployments in the networks we've 
> got today, but won't spend resources on unnecessary (in some cases 
> impossible) feature parity.
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> - Ralph
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>> Melinda
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