Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

[John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>]

FYI - I'm on v6ops, although generally just lurking.

Excellent suggestion; I'll likely go with the change to that
"Organizations MAY treat Internet-facing IPv4 servers as not production."

This gets the point across without entering the deprecation realm.

Thanks again,
/John

At 9:50 AM -0500 7/24/07, james woodyatt wrote:
>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