Re: draft-carpenter-v4v6tran-framework

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

Pekka,

Thanks. Yes, this is not so different from the earliest goals of v6ops,
but the difference now is that we have many ISPs who are strongly
motivated, and also a clear understanding that the address runout is
visible within current planning cycles.

Personally I don't believe that a wiki is going to meet the needs.
Wikis can and do serve as useful repositories and I'm all for them,
for reasons that Cameron has stated in his message, but they are not
solid enough for the target audience. We need both.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter




On 2010-08-31 03:44, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was solicited to send comments on this so here we come.
> 
> This sounds awfully familiar to the scenarios/analysis work we did some
> 5-7 years ago back here, though goal seems to produce more detailed, and
> more future-proof documents.  A challenge here is that information, in
> order to be useful requires including vendor-specific and/or
> configuration detail which may be issue from multiple perspectives.
> 
> I applaud any and all such work, but I will note that I'm somewhat
> skeptical of another IETF effort in this front.  The previous experience
> was a challenge enough.
> 
> I wonder if similar goals could be met by working on documenting these
> in a wiki. Write drafts if it helps focus discussion, but turning the
> crank to produce 10+ RFCs that will get outdated soon enough doesn't
> seem like worth the effort.
>