Re: isatap-07 draft offered as last-call

[Fred Templin <osprey67@yahoo.com>]

Brian,

Apologies; I should have checked with you first on this. With the comments
received, I intend to revisit the last-call and repost when we have the
process and technical details worked out.

Fred

--- Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
> below...
> 
> Fred Templin wrote:
> > 
> > --- Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Fred Templin wrote:
> > > > As per Harald Alvestrand's message "On NGTRANS, transition mechanisms and consortia",
> > > > I would like to offer the current isatap version as immediate last-call candidate for
> > > > experimental track. The document can be found at:
> > > >
> > > >   http://www.geocities.com/osprey67/isatap-07.txt
> > >
> > > Please be specific what you mean.
> > >
> > > I took Harald's message as to signify "you can always submit a draft for
> > > experimental as an individual submission".
> > 
> > Specifically, Harald's message states:
> > 
> > > There are several ways around this if you want things published:
> > > - Publish through other mechanisms than the RFC process
> > > - Publish as Experimental RFC
> > > - Plead with the ADs to sponsor the mechanisms for standards track based on their obvious
> merits
> > (identifying the mechanisms they obsolete)
> > 
> > Thus, I am seeking to publish as an Experimental RFC and also pleading with the ADs to
> > sponsor the mechanism for standards track based on obsoleting RFC 2529 (6over4).
> 
> That is egregious and irrelevant. I would object very strongly. 6over4 is
> is self-contained and there is no reason to couple its future to that
> of ISATAP. As a matter of fact, 6over4 has no affiliation with either
> NGTRANS or V6OPS; it was an IPNGWG document and if any WG owns it
> today, it would be IPV6.
> 
> 2529 should sleep harmlessly as a Proposed Standard. Its day may come, and
> it is harmless.
> 
>    Brian


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