Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

[Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org>]

At 7:56 AM -0800 12/16/07, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Yaakov Stein wrote:
> > Why don't we dedicate a separate 2 hour plenary just to this 
> > experiment with the moderator announcing workarounds and collected 
> > statistics ?
>
> That's not a plenary.
>
> That's an interoperability event.

Not at all: it is an operations experiment. The (probably valid) 
assumption is that if people can get their systems set up correctly, 
there will be good interoperability once bits are flowing end to end. 
The test is getting their systems set up.

> The IETF doesn't do those...

...but should. In the VPN Consortium's logo testing, we see much more 
difficulty with the operations side of IPsec than in the IPsec 
protocol itself. I would not be surprised to hear similar results for 
other protocol suites, such as IPv6.

Having the IETF see first-hand the operational aspects of its 
protocols would probably have a positive effects on the protocols it 
produces.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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