Re: spending time on analysis [Re: draft-palet-v6ops-proto41-nat-03 as WG item]

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Fred Templin wrote:
> Then, let's have ISATAP as a WG item; it's been around for three
> years and there is nothing premature about that. (Better yet would
> be to just go ahead and publish it NOW.)

We don't yet know whether we need ISATAP.

We don't yet know where we would need ISATAP, if we needed it.  Thus, if
we took it up, we would not know where to develop it.

I.e., there should not be a tool without clear purpose.

Therefore starting to work on ISATAP would be premature, even though it 
has been under individual specification for a long time now.

We just have to know where and how to use the mechanisms before getting
down the path of working on them.

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