Re: Moving forward

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:26:51AM -0400, Soliman Hesham wrote:
> David, 
> 
> 
>  > it is now getting time that we start to move from the analysis phase
>  > to standarization. As you all know, in general the Operations area
>  > doesn't design new protocols. This means we cannot standarize the
>  > solutions in the v6ops working group.
> 
> => Does this mean that proposals like Teredo will not be 
> standardised in this Area? 

I am confused, why was the transition work moved to Operations Area then if
there actually was never any way we could specify new mechanisms or finalise
existing ones?   And why talk of a temporary ban when it could never have
been lifted in the v6ops WG?

This seems wrong, we should have made an "IPv6 Transition" WG under the
Internet Area.   I recall the reasoning for v6ops at the time was to send
the message that "IPv6 is operational", which is good, but apparently it
was in fact a curse :(

It's a shame some of these little IETF rules aren't known by everyone...

Tim