On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote:

> 
> On Jul 27, 2011 7:20 AM, "Ted Lemon" <ted.le...@nominum.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If you have a reason to install and enable 6to4, why would the nominal
> >>>
> >>> status of a couple of RFCs make you do anything different?
> >
> >
> > This seems like an easy question to answer.   You'd implement and use 
> > 6to4v2 because it works better than the historic 6to4 protocol.
> >
> >
> 
> It seems like there is this deep philosophical discussion about historic 
> status. From what I can tell, ietf sent nat-pt to historic well before nat64 
> came about. Many people were using nat-pt too ... but going to historic 
> forced things along. It was a good choice in hindsight.
> 

And natpt implementations still exist and are used by consenting adults. At a 
previous employer we were considering the business case for an implementation 
well after it's historic status. better solutions came along.

> Cb 
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