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Re: Again no multi6 at IETF#56



|    Agreed, still we need to try and guess when that will be. Mostly
|    because that will set the agenda. I would be interested in
|    seeing what
|    the trend curves for the IPv6 routing table looks like
|    from the people
|    monitoring these. But I am not sure if Geoff Huston or
|    Gert During for
|    example are on this list.


We are currently trying to hold people off from deploying v6 because
this issue is not closed.  If it was closed, if v6 really was a
better architecture, if things actually worked, then we would have
been done a few years ago.  Consider: Windows has already adopted it,
most of the routers are well along the way.  All it takes is us
(the IETF community) telling folks that it's ready.

I have for a quite long time been saying that IPv6 currently does not give any advantage to IPv4 except longer addresses. Now, there is enough room for discussion for it's own mailing list so I guess that is somewhat off-topic.

So please don't set the schedule based on when people WILL show up.
If we wait for that point, then events will have overtaken us, we
will have lost control of deployment and the same old routing
architecture will be too solidly ingrained for people to think
about moving.  We are already getting quite a bit of backpressure
on not changing anything related to v6 already.  This can only
grow over time.
Agreed. The schedule have to be independent of when people will show up.

- kurtis -