Engaging apps folks

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

> On 28-jun-04, at 14:45, Erik Nordmark wrote:
> 
> > And if the long-lived ID is one of the locators we can provide 
> > compatbility
> > for unmodified applications which do referrals and callbacks.
> 
> We should really talk to some apps people to figure out how important 
> this is. It's entirely trivial to shoot yourself in the foot today with 
> NAT or multiple addresses anyway, and then there is dual stack. How are 
> referrals going to work when a future participant in the communication 
> may be limited to one IP version, which happens to be the other one 
> than the one used by current participants?
> 
> It may very well be that apps and protocols need to be changed anyway 
> in order to work with IPv6, or IPv4+IPv6.

My experience, and I think Kurt said something similar, is that it
is hard to engage application folks without something concrete like
a proposal that they look at. This makes it tricky to get feedback before
we have nailed down enough of the approach to be able write down how it
will affect applications, unless we do the work to present the apps folks
with a menu having different choices.

  Erik