Re: Another look at 6to4 (and other IPv6 transition issues)

[Mark Andrews <[e-mail]>]

In message <[e-mail]>, John C Klensin writes:
> 
> 
> --On Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:40 +0200 Harald Alvestrand
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> >...
> >> Actively being used.  In production.  So that taking it away
> >> would hurt the entity using it, threaten the entity's comfort
> >> and convenience, or just generally go against the stated
> >> goals of making the Internet a better place for everybody
> >> through the instrumentation and maintenance of standards.
> >
> > The idea that moving a standard to Historic would take away
> > the ability of people to use it reminds me of the story from
> > the Norwegian army, approx 1939:
> > 
> > - "If the enemy invades, how will you prevent them from using
> > the train network?"
> > - "Burn all the tickets, sir!"
> 
> I like this analogy.  The proposed action would have no effect
> whatsoever on the behavior that one is trying to discourage.
> But the move makes the party recommending the action look
> ridiculous, ridiculous enough that the story of the
> recommendation is still being told move than 70 years later.
> 
>      john

Except there are vendors who have already threatened to remove the
6to4 code if it is declared historic then you are left between a
rock and a hard place if you need to upgrade the software on the
6to4 router for other reasons and still want to use 6to4.

Not everyone is in the position to just board the train they want
by force to take the analogy a little further.

Mark
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