Re: you have running code ... I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-03.txt

[David Farmer <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:28 PM Brian E Carpenter <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 2018-10-31 10:42, Mark Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 07:28, Job Snijders <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Bjoern,
> >>
> >> It is great to see people produce running code for experimentation -
> >> congratulations!
> >>
> >> Can you (or others running FreeBSD EXPERIMENTAL) share reports on how
> >> this pans out in practise? What gaps between reality and documentation
> >> are uncovered, or whether the patch was complete/not-complete?
> >>
> >> What OS vendor will go next?
> >>
> >
> > IANA better allocate the bit first.
>
> Yes, that's an interesting chicken/egg issue since there is no
> designated experimental/local use bit. But hard to avoid if people
> want running code before Proposed Standard.
>

Regardless if this document is published and any misgivings anyone has, I
think we need to have IANA allocate the code point to this purpose NOW!  We
asked to have running code, we now have some, it is extremely dangerous to
have code out in the wild without some level of an official designation of
the code point.

I'm not sure of the procedure, but for all effective purposes if we expect
there to be more running code we had better officially designate the code
point.

Thanks.

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