Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

[Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>]

Phillip Hallam-Baker <pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:

> what is proposed here is more of the nature of a PR stunt, a proof
> of concept than a test of a transition strategy.

I agree that it cannot be a true "test of a transition strategy" since
the main problem with any transition strategy is the meachnism for
somehow influencing those who don't particularly care about the
opinion of those who try to tell everyone else what the transition
strategy should be.

> PR stunts can be good, but they can also have the opposite effect if you
> don't know what is going to happen. I have been involved in several
> 'public' interop events at conferences. There is no way I would be
> within a hundred feet of one, let alone participate if I did not have
> absolute certainty in advance of what the result was going to be (yes
> there is usually a pre-interop before hand).

+1

Greetings,
Norbert.


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