On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:27:50PM -0800, Erik Nordmark wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >You could wait until ... > > 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.
No good deed goes unpunished, alas. Darren Reed suggests waiting for the RFC to be issued, to which one could very well respond "that's nuts!", but I responded by listing a number of things that PSARC could (*could*) wait for that take much less time than that. In particular, a consensus call in a WG should take very little time, but since these are not work items of any WGs I figured asking an AD to pick and shepherd on of these I-Ds would be the next best option. Now I'm the one who gets told "that's nuts!" *sigh* :) > 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. Waiting for the IESG is waiting forever, I agree. But at most I suggested asking the IAB, which should be able to move much more quickly on this issue than the IESG. Waiting for some indication of consensus, OTOH, is advisable: what'd be the point of shipping this feature if Class E addresses won't be routable because noone else implements the same feature (or the same feature interoperably)?? Fortunately I think it'd be darned hard to implement this non-interoperably, and I suspect many want to implement it. Nico --
