[lacnog] RFC 8200 – IPv6 has been standardized

[Tomas Lynch]

Muy buena aclaración Jordi, gracias. MPLS es un caso que es "solo un" RFC y
no un STD.

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 4:07 AM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <
jordi.palet en consulintel.es> wrote:

> Siento que este en inglés, pero creo que es fácil de entender …
>
> I’ve published a comment about this on the deploy360 site, I think it is
> worth to make it here as well.
>
> IETF works with documents that start with an Internet Draft (ID). Once the
> ID is accepted by a Working Group, then it becomes “IETF work” (before that
> is just an individual contribution).
>
> Most of the vendors, since many years ago, implement code for IDs once
> they become stable (sometimes even from earlier document versions if they
> want to “try” the concept), and almost every vendor implement a stable
> version when a document becomes an RFC (the step after the ID becomes
> stable).
>
> Today we use many protocols that are “just” RFCs.
>
> However, there is one more step, which is STD (standard), which is done
> only once code for an RFC has been running globally in Internet for a few
> years, and it is proven that it is interoperable and stable among several
> vendors/products.
>
> As you may guess, the move from RFC to STD is more an administrative task
> (reporting such universal deployment and interoperability) than a technical
> task or change. In fact for an RFC to move to STD it must be stable, so no
> “last minute” changes, unless is just clarifying text in the document, etc.
>
> What that means in the context of IPv6 and why this clarifications are
> important? Because it may appear to people not knowing very well the IETF
> process that IPv6 was not “useful” until now, or not a standard, or
> anything like that, which is not true. IPv6 has been stable for many years
> and it has been successfully deployed in many networks since so early as
> 2003 (big intercontinental networks, for example Telefonica and Orange) and
> that’s why we can say today is “more than just an RFC”.
>
> Remember that we all use today many IETF protocols that are “just” RFCs,
> it is the way it works, we don’t have at IETF spare time to move most of
> those RFCs to STDs, but we did the extra effort in the case of IPv6 to
> remark the protocol maturity.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Regards,
> Jordi
>
>
>
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