Re: IPv4 outage at next IETF in Chicago

Matthew Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com> Wed, 25 January 2017 18:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: IPv4 outage at next IETF in Chicago
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On 24 January 2017 at 18:32, Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> wrote:

>
> Language apart, there is a serious question here. Did the IETF produce the
> right standards for IPv6 only networks? Is NAT64/DNS64 useful or harmful?
> What else are we missing? It seems that the IETF should try to answer that
> sooner rather than later. The IETF culture, besides the flowery language,
> encourages practical engineering and experimentation over speculation. So,
> yes, maybe we should do some practical experimentation, just like Franck
> Martin is proposing.
>
> Experimentation is good.  But don't do it on the main IETF network, as
Franck is suggesting.  That's what we have the v6-only SSID and others are
for.

IETF participants have operational responsibilities.  Any of these "let's
run an experiment on the main access network!" ideas that have a potential
to break anyone's applications are bad ideas.  Such experiments need to be
run on experimental networks.