[Int-area] New draft: The IETF Will Continue Maintaining IPv4 (draft-schoen-intarea-ietf-maintaining-ipv4)

Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Tue, 15 March 2022 18:59 UTC

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Subject: [Int-area] New draft: The IETF Will Continue Maintaining IPv4 (draft-schoen-intarea-ietf-maintaining-ipv4)
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Hi intarea,

When we presented our reserved address space drafts at the previous IETF
meeting, we noticed that the most common concern was not so much about
the substance of our proposals as about the question of whether intarea
and the IETF should be working on IPv4 fixes at all.

This question has been discussed on and off over the past few years. It
was, in a way, the subject of an entire now-concluded working group in
its own right (sunset4).  We thought we should go to the heart of the
matter and propose to confirm that the IETF intends to keep maintaining
IPv4.

As our draft notes, this is the opposite of a proposed consensus item
from sunset4 which stated that the IETF would stop working on IPv4.  That
notion raised many concerns for community members, and we now hope to
see whether a consensus to continue maintaining IPv4 can be found.

Our draft emphasizes that IPv4 is the most-used network layer protocol
in the world, that it's expected to be widely used for the foreseeable
future, that the IETF is the historic home of IPv4 standardization, and that
there continue to be coordination tasks for IPv4 implementations which
the IETF is best-suited to host.  Those include not only our own proposals
about address space, but also numerous work items on various IPv4 topics
that have arisen and become RFCs over the past decade.

Our draft does not question or alter the community's consensus in favor
of IPv6 adoption, but states that neglecting IPv4 is not a part of the
IETF's transition plan.

You can find it at

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-ietf-maintaining-ipv4/

We invite discussion leading up to our presentation and Q&A at the
intarea session (13:30 UTC) on Tuesday, March 22, during IETF113 in
Vienna.  Please let us know if you have any questions after reading the
draft.