Hi Tony, Hi Tony,
> Please don't take this as a personal attack, but you just > don't get it. What I suspect is that we are actually looking at the same problems, from a different direction & thinking that a different way forward is what is needed. I completely agree with you that we should (must) not change IPv6 to suit the immediate needs of the day. Doing otherwise would really kill the purpose of IPv6. I think we both agree that one way to ensure this is to have an IPv6 Host Requirement document, which is applicable to all of the devices we see as potentially implementing IPv6. Such a document won't be turned out overnight, but that's the IETF. Additionally, having IPv6 over Foo documents are always useful, and in Salt Lake City, there was interest in having an IPv6 over Cellular (or some variation of that theme). I have discussed with a number of folks writing such a document. However, I think even with the proper scoping, this document will take some time as well. Now where we differ is what to do now. In my opinion, some informational document (that could / should be obsoleted when the general host document is completed) is needed to assist in implementing & deploying IPv6 on small cellular hosts. Most of these hosts will not be using a standard POSIX operating system, so information on doing this kind of thing may be limited. Of course, a document could be written within 3GPP, 3GPP2, etc. but that would miss critical review that (in my opinion) is needed from the IPv6 WG - and potentially lead to different versions of IPv6 (3GPP's IPv6, 3GPP2's IPv6, IETF's IPv6). I think the technical comments that Margaret has brought up have been great & very useful. Additionally, I think that the entire discussion has been useful because it is clarifying some things which are needed to be clarified. If I am still not getting it, please let me know - I really do want this discussion to be constructive and lead to a useful resolution. best regards, John -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
