[6bone] 6bone phaseout planning announcement

[Nicolas DEFFAYET]

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 18:41, Pim van Pelt wrote:
> |   <http://www.6bone.net/misc/draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-00.txt>
> | 
> | Note that the plan and dates stated in the draft are only for discussion. 
> | It is now up to the IETF open process to establish the actual plan and 
> | timing.
> 
> I have read the document and I agree to all of your suggestions and
> remarks. Note that repeat yourself once in the document:
> > This document is intended to obsolete RFC 2471, "IPv6 Testing Address
> > Allocation", December, 1998.  RFC 2471 will become historic.
> 
> About the dates, 7/2004 through 7/2006 seems to be quite a long time in
> my opinion. I'd like to see 7/2005 as closing date, because one year of
> deployment practice should be enough for most companies.
> 
> Perhaps when time progresses, we'll have a lot of best common practices
> regarding IPv6 deployment and administration, so that it can be
> considered a valid possibility for entities with an IPv6 deployment
> plan which requires a TLA, to simply request one from their RIR.
> 
> In short: In 2005, I don't think anybody will need separated space to
> experiment in. I'd like to see the closing date moved forward to July
> 2005.

I agree, July 2005 is a good closing date.


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