RE: problem statement [was Re: New Version Notification for draft-hinden-ipv4flag-00.txt]

"Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com> Tue, 21 November 2017 21:03 UTC

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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com>
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com>, "ipv6@ietf.org" <ipv6@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: problem statement [was Re: New Version Notification for draft-hinden-ipv4flag-00.txt]
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From: ipv6 [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Petrescu

> When I switched a PC AT 286 from IPX to TCP/IP it was because the
> latter gave access to remote servers and persons rather than just
> big disk on a local LAN.  Sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk was important because,
> among other things, gave access to RFCs, which IPX LAN server wouldnt.

Enterprise nets were running multiple protocols including IP, and it became easier to just use IP. I would say, analogous to running dual stack today, and then eventually you drop IPv4.

In my case, we had all switched over to WFWG at some point, so we all had the IP stack installed in hosts already. Over time, the only app we were using DECnet for became e-mail (VMSmail), so we simply switched over to a different e-mail system. That seems like where we might end up with IPv4, but not there yet.

At home, ISP dialup service was always IP and only IP. That followed after the enterprise network at work, though.

> This would translate today into putting the RFCs and I-Ds on IPv6 only.
> (datatracker, tools.ietf.org, etc)  Or the email lists, or the other
> services.

Not really comparable, right? The vast majority of people can't even spell IETF, let alone care about reading RFCs. Yes, even the vast majority of people on enterprise networks, couldn't care less about reading RFCs. So this would just become a nuisance for many people, especially those whose enterprise nets do not support IPv6 yet.

Bert