[lacnog] RFC 8200 – IPv6 has been standardized

[Carlos M. Martinez]

Se extraña la epoca de los Kompella, cuando la gente implementaba 
*drafts*.

Ahora insisten en STD…

:D

On 19 Jul 2017, at 18:15, Tomas Lynch wrote:

> 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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