Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6 (IPv6 STANDARDS)

Sat Oct 16 23:57:11 UTC 2010

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:52:31 -0400
Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
> >> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:40:41 +1030
> >> From: Mark Smith <nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:31:22 +0100
> >> Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-6man-prefixlen-p2p-00.txt
> >> >
> >>
> >> Drafts are drafts, and nothing more, aren't they?
> >
> > Drafts are drafts. Even most RFCs are RFCs and nothing more. Only a
> > handful have ever been designated as "Standards". I hope this becomes
> > one of those in the hope it will be taken seriously. (It already is by
> > anyone with a large network running IPv6.)
> 
> And none of the listed IETF "full standards" are IPv6 related.  That
> seems a little bit odd to me given that everyone is supposed to have
> implemented them by now.
> 

The IETF standards process is different to other standards
organisations - publication of an RFC doesn't make it a standard. It is
much more pragmatic, as operational history is also used as an input
into the decision.

> Bill Bogstad