Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

On Jul 24, 2007, at 09:12, Fred Baker forwarded:
>     http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jcurran- 
> v6transitionplan-00.txt
>
> > 2.2  Transition Phase - January 2009 to December 2010
> >  [...]
> >  During the Post-Transition Phase, the following principles apply:
> >  [...]
> >  2.3.4 Service Providers area MAY continue to offer IPv4-based  
> > Internet
> >        connectivity to their customers.  Organizations MAY  
> > continue to
> >        use IPv4-based Internet connectivity.  Organizations MAY  
> > remove
> >        IPv4-based Internet connectivity from Internet-facing servers.

The final sentence here is the point where the principles seem to  
move from describing the transition toward IPv6-based service to  
describing the process of deprecating IPv4.  While I'm all in favor  
of deprecating IPv4 over time, I think it deserves to be the topic of  
a separate draft.

I would recommend dropping that last sentence, or perhaps changing it  
to this: "Organizations MAY treat Internet-facing IPv4 servers as not  
production."


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering