[Softwires] Unified proposal for stateless IPv4 Residual Deployments (4rd-U) - Contributors?

[Rémi Després <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

 Some IETF-82 participants have expressed wishes to pursue the work on 4rd-U. Alain mentioned to me he would be interested, as Softwire chair, he would be interested in having at IETF 83 not only the MAP proposal (with its Encapsulation and Translation variants), but also a 4rd-U proposal. He also said I would be welcome to lead the effort. 

 To start the work, I therefore plan to edit in December a new version of the 4rd-U draft. It will be in particular updated  to delete the Max-PSID/Max-EA-bits mechanism.
 For the discussion starting from it, the plan is to have a 4rd-U mailing list on the IETF site.
 On this list, all those wishing to contribute to the 4rd-U proposal will be invited to participate (including, of course, those who are already interested in MAP, both approaches remaining open at this stage).
 
Please le me know if you plan to contribute.

 For those who attended the Softwire session in Taipei, please note that the serious objection against 4rd-U expressed by several participants during the meeting has been, soon after, acknowledged to be invalid (www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/softwires/current/msg03281.html).
 Also, other (less important) objections have been answered in www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/softwires/current/msg03284.html, without reaction so far. 

Best regards,
RD