6bone (IPv6 Testing Address Allocation) Phaseout
draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-04

From: Erik Nordmark
To: Randy Bush
Cc: iesg
Subject: Re: draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-03.txt: info or bcp
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:13:27 +0200 (CEST)

> advice solicited, info or bcp?

Either one would be ok with me as long as there is a last call.
(The document internally effectively asks for a last call.)
I note that the document itself says something about BCP being appropriate
for the document, thus if you want info you should get that text updated
before a last call.
Since we use info for document which explain why other documents move
to historic it would be more consistent to make this document info as well.

One comment on the document (since your note made me read it :-)

    Thus after the 6bone phaseout date June 6, 2006, it is REQUIRED that
    no 6bone 3FFE prefixes, of any size/length, be used on the Internet
    in any form.

The above REQUIRED seems out of place - the IETF can place no such requirements
on use AFAIK. I'd suggest rewriting this to say that the intent is that there
be no use of 3FFE prefix. It might make sense to add a suggestion that the
Internet start filtering such prefixes if that is what we want.

Given that the assumption is that the 6bone registry operates under the
oversight of the IETF (since the IETF sanctioned the experiment) the earlier
statements about halting allocations are perfectly ok.

  Erik



From: Randy Bush
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:30:03 +0900
To: Erik Nordmark
Cc: iesg
Subject: Re: draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-03.txt: info or bcp

actually, i would expect the prefix to be returned to the registries
for subsequent reallocation in whatever their normal fashion is in
that season.

randy

From: Bob Fink
To: Randy Bush
Cc: Bob Hinden
Subject: Re: processing draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-03.txt for BCP
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:19:01 -0700

Randy,

At 10:30 AM 6/11/2003 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>> Was this going to be a BCP?  I can't remember if this was discussed.
>>> i certainly don't remember.
>> I was just following precedent for the Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA.
>
> but that was a specific request for ops change to the iab->iana.
>
> this could be thought of as information about what 6bone plans.  it
> obsoletes an experimental, so does not need to be bcp/standards.

That's ok by me and I'm sure anyone else involved. Just handle it anyway
you think appropriate.

The important thing is to finalize the plan from an IETF perspective so we
can stop the allocations in January next year and pull the entire
allocation block of 3ffe in Jun 2006.

Thanks,

Bob