Re: [Int-area] Is IPv6 End-to-End? R.I.P. Architecture? (Fwd: Errata #5933 for RFC8200)

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

And with that it seems proper to ask what is "the Internet" ? Isn't the
Internet a collection of number of interconnected *autonomous* systems ? So
at best IETF as a SDO could define NNI between those autonomous systems not
discate how those systems should operate internally.

Some can use IPv4, some IPv6, some MPLS, some even openflow.

Sure IETF goes step further and defines how protocols work within those
ASes such that we do not get into proprietary protocols and have some hope
here and there that implementations of given RFC have a chance to
interoperate.

Then if you ask the younger generation what is Internet they tell you it is
facebook, google, youtube etc ... so all they need a last mile connection
by google, face or ms and "Internet" becomes controlled all under
just few administrations.  Geoff has great slides we have all seen about
the Cartel :)  How IETF is going to even influence decisions made by such
Cartel remains to be seen.

Meanwhile let's continue with SR and PSP topic ;-)



On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 2:41 PM Keith Moore <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> On 2/28/20 3:18 AM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
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> > So this is not IETF business to say - no you can not do it as it may
> > sometimes fail say due to MTU.
>
> I emphatically disagree.   IETF's job is to specify what is believed to
> work well for the Internet, and that sometimes involves making judgments
> about the relative merits of different parties' claims - e.g.  between
> one party's claimed benefit and what other people understand is likely
> to cause harm.
>
> Keith
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