Re: [v6ops] reclassify 464XLAT as standard instead of info

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 19 September 2017 20:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] reclassify 464XLAT as standard instead of info
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On 20/09/2017 00:23, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> RFC6877 (464XLAT) is an informational document.
> 
> However, this transition mechanism is the one that has a bigger deployment in terms of number of subscribers using it (hundreds of millions), which I think is even more than ALL the other transition mechanism together.
> 
> Doesn’t make any sense, in my opinion to keep it as an informational document, while we have many others that are standards track and don’t have such level of deployment.
> 
> I was commenting this last week with a couple of the co-authors of this document, and they have the same opinion.
> 
> So, should we aim to do this?
> 
> Can we even consider moving it to STD?

It seems reasonable to me, but probably needs a new RFC, because of the
"Status of this memo" section, so I expect that would lead to nitpicking
discussions. Do the authors have the energy for that?

     Brian

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