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Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Sun, 16 December 2007 17:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary
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Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 7:56 AM -0800 12/16/07, Dave Crocker wrote:
>> That's an interoperability event.
> 
> Not at all: it is an operations experiment. The (probably valid) 
> assumption is that if people can get their systems set up correctly, 
> there will be good interoperability once bits are flowing end to end. 
> The test is getting their systems set up.


No, the test is using them.

 From the IETF site back to the user's home site.

Lots of independent administrations involved.

Will they work together?

That's interoperability.


>> The IETF doesn't do those...
> 
> ...but should.

Well, we certainly could walk down the path of listing the things the IETF 
"should" do, but that would be wrong...


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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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