On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Brian Haberman wrote:
Ed Jankiewicz wrote:
Speaking as an individual, but drawing on my experience as a contributor
to one of the profile specifications you mention, it seems this draft
could be one of the following:
1. a roadmap/reading list for IPv6 implementors and evaluators (thus
informational, and without any RFC 2119 language)
Would this type of document be a single laundry list of IPv6-related specs or
would it try and narrow down the suggested reading list based on some
classification (e.g., router, host, etc.)?
While TCP roadmap (RFC4614) title is worded as a "roadmap", it's in
some respects closer to an applicability statement. That is, rather
than just listing the specs, it classifies them to "Basic
Functionality", "Recommended Enhancements", "Experimental Extensions",
"Historic Extensions", "Support Documents", "Undocumented TCP
Features". In a summary of each RFC, there are also statements which
reflect outdated parts of the spec.
I grant it that IPv6 and TCP are a bit different. TCP has a clearer
"minimum implementation requirement" which is the same for all kinds
of deployments. It's not obvious what that would be for an IPv6
implementation.
I don't think the IETF is best placed to develop different IPv6
implementation profiles for different usage scenarios. It seems to be
the job of the market, ipv6 forum and organizaitons like that to do
that. We could help in that process, and I'd hope we'd get feedback
on the viability of our specs in that regard, but trying to write RFCs
would likely be difficult.
So I think we would be best served by a TCP-roadmap like document,
which we could call either a roadmap or applicability statement. It
should not have any RFC2119 keywords.
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