Nicolas Williams wrote: > You could wait until the IESG issues the protocol action placing the I-D > on the Standards Track, rather than waiting for it to be an RFC. > > In any case, there are *two* unexpired, individual submission I-Ds on > this topic. Both have "I-D Exists" as their status. That is definitely > not enough. The ARC should at least wait for there to be an AD > sponsoring one of these (or other) documents, and preferably there > should be some consensus somewhere about doing this. In this case I > think the best place to seek consensus would be the IETF list, or else > ask the IAB for their view on the matter.
In case the news haven't been received, the current estimate is that the last IPv4 address block will be handed out by IANA in early 2009 - that is less than 18 months away. (The peer-reviewed powerpoint presentation that explains this is up on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 ;-) Given that everybody that needs more IP address space might not be ready to move to IPv6 in 18 months, being able to use Class E would buy some time. But given our release cycles it would seem a bit silly to say that we must wait; for all I know it could take the IETF and the IESG more than 18 months to agree on a draft even if the concept that is proposed has rough consensus and running code. If we want Solaris to be relevant in the Internet thing, I think we should try to move fast on this one. And I don't know of any possible harm we could cause by removing the checks we have in the code which today prevent Class E addresses from being assigned and forwarded by Solaris. Do you see anything that could break? Erik
