[6bone] 6bone phaseout planning announcement

[Bob Fink]

Pim,

At 06:41 PM 1/12/2003 +0100, 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.

On purpose. The abstract has it so it can appear alone and state this, and 
the body of the draft has it. If that's what you meant.


>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.

Thanks for the comments.


Bob