From: "Eliot Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...what is the benefit of going forward at all with IP version 6..." ??? =====
IPv6 is a never-ending research project that keeps people busy while real protocol work is done elsewhere. Jim Fleming http://www.IPv8.info ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eliot Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:32 PM Subject: site-locals > For those of you who are voting "no" on the question of deprecation... > > I just want to reiterate something that Tony Li had mentioned (and I > hope Tony will correct me if I've lost something in the translation): > > Given that if the mechanism exists we know people will develop NAT > functionality in order to isolate enterprises from IP address changes, > what is the benefit of going forward at all with IP version 6? A large > address space is useless if you only need a small one. We already have > that. > > It is true that enterprises could choose NOT to do what I wrote, above. > But I think that's unlikely for the very reasons that many people who > voted "no" have mentioned in their arguments. People understand a > particular paradigm, today. It takes effort for them to learn a new > one. The IETF doesn't make laws, so all it takes is some amount of > interoperability -- not even a whole lot. > > Nobody "markets" such a principle from a "for profit" perspective, and > certainly no company has a business plan that sells the principle. That > task is left to a few of us religious zealots. > > This is it, folks. Here is an opportunity to market the end to end > principle by not codifying the easy out that breaks it. Let's make a > clean case for doing things right. We can relax that (admittedly) > strident view later, but coming out the gate, remember the effort > required for administrators to use site-locals as far thinking people > like Tony Hain have envisioned. > > Eliot > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
