Re: [v6ops] Thoughts about wider operational input

["Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[e-mail]>]

On 22 Mar 2022, at 1:01, Bob Hinden wrote:

> I should probably know better to respond to this thread, but 
> apparently not :-)

dito… and I don’t know what triggered this thread as .. as 
not-onsite and Fred wasn’t exactly saying.. Anyway…

> In my view, and I think I am agreeing with Nick said, it’s not a 
> technical problem that would be fixed by a technical feature.   IPv4 
> works for most enterprises today and they don’t see a need (aka 
> business case) to do anything different.   The Enterprises who are 
> thinking about moving to IPv6 are very large enterprises who can’t 
> live within the limits of private IPv4 space.

But remember that these XXL-enterprises are also seeking solutions and 
using ways often not feasible or applicable for the common SMLB.


> I suspect these are the ones we should be talking to.

I suspect the answer is more like “wait until they start speaking to 
you”; well, why should they?  IETF is on no radar for most of them ..  
so rather you have to go and “listen when and where they speak” 
because they do.

0.1ct/bz