Re: Comments: <draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-04.txt>

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> In reading this with staff here, we have a suggestion to add 
> one line....just a thought.  Maybe the author would want to 
> say it another way.  We thought maybe saying that it is available
> for re-allocation might be more clear.
> 
> Paragraph 3 of the IANA Consideration section:
> 
>      There is experience from the IPv4 world that such filters may not be
>      removed promptly should this address space be reallocated, and it is
>      recommended that the IANA bears this in mind before reallocating it
>      in a manner that would require it to be routed globally within the
>      current Internet.
> 
> Could read something like:
> 
>      At this point the 3ffe address range is available for
>      re-allocation. However there is experience from the IPv4 world that
>      such filters may not be removed promptly should this address space be
>      reallocated, and it is recommended that the IANA bears this in mind
>      before reallocating it in a manner that would require it to be routed
>      globally within the current Internet.
> 
> Anyways, just a suggestion.

i have discussed this with bob fink, my co-author.  we agree to the
additional sentence.  shall we do it as a rfced 48, or would the
area director, bert, care to see a new draft?

randy