Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Saturday, 22 December, 2007 13:07 -0500 IETF Chair
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> I had no idea that my previous announcement would generate
> such a long stream of responses.  The lively discussion has
> been surprising, interesting, and also informative.  I need to
> share some history, some plans, and some reactions to this
> lengthy discussion.
> 
> The IETF meeting network supported IPv6 for at least the last
> five years. Both IPv4 and IPv6 routing have been available on
>...
> Following the mail list discussion, we have considered several
> different configurations for achieving the desired network
> experiment environment. It is important that everyone have
> adequate opportunity for advance configuration, and it is
> important that severe impact on other network resources at the
> meeting venue be avoided.  With these goals in mind, we intend
> to add an additional IPv6-only subnet, with a different SSID on
>...

Russ,

>From my perspective at least, an excellent approach that
balances the issues well.

thanks,
   john


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