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

Sun Oct 17 14:56:40 UTC 2010

On Oct 16, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Bill Bogstad 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.
> 
> Bill Bogstad

IPv4 was much further along in deployment than IPv6 is now when the first
IPv4 STDs were published as STDs.

Usually RFCs bake for quite a while in the real world before becoming STDs.

Owen