RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

[Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

IMHO: IETF is only partially guilty. Who was capable to predict in 1992-1994 that:

- Wireless would become so popular (WiFi is from 1997) and wireless would emulate multicast so badly (hi SLAAC)
- Hardware forwarding (PFE) would be invented (1997) that would have a big additional cost to implement Enhanced Headers
- Encryption would never have a small enough cost to make it mandatory
- Router would be available in every smallest thing that makes distributed address acquisition redundant (hi SLAAC)

We should be fair - it was not possible to guess.

Ed/
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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+vasilenko.eduard=huawei.com () nanog org] On Behalf Of Joe Maimon
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 3:01 AM
To: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Cc: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC



Tom Beecher wrote:
>     If the IETF has really been unable to achieve consensus on properly
>     supporting the currently still dominant internet protocol, that is
>     seriously problematic and a huge process failure.
>
>
> That is not an accurate statement.
>
> The IETF has achieved consensus on this topic. It's explained here by 
> Brian Carpenter.
>
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/int-area/qWaHXBKT8BOx208SbwWILDX
> yAUA/

As I have explained with my newly introduced consensus standards, there is no such consensus.

To reiterate my consensus standards, consensus is only to be considered as amongst stakeholders and IPv6 specific 
related stakes are not relevant to IPv4. If you consider the reverse to be true as well, I think my version of 
consensus would achieve a much wider and diverse consensus than the the stated IETF's consensus.

Once a consensus has been proven invalid its beyond obnoxious to cling to it as though it maintains its own reality 
field.

> He expressly states with many +1s that if something IPv4 related needs 
> to get worked on , it will be worked on,

IPv4 still needs address exhaustion solutions.

> but the consensus solution to V4 address exhaustion was IPng that 
> became IPv6, so that is considered a solved problem.

IPv6 is not a solution. Its a replacement that does not have the same problem. Which could be a solution to the 
problem, but only if the replacement happens on schedule. However, so long as the replacement hasnt happened, we still 
are dealing with the problem.

The IETF made a stupendously bad bet that IPv6 would happen in time. 
That is the kind of bet that you better be right about. They were a 
decade+ wrong. That they have the audacity and temerity to continue
doubling down on that would be funny if it wasnt so outrageous, wrong and harmful.

Let us re-examine the premise. When did it become acceptable to quash work on one protocol because of the existence of 
another one that is preferred by the quashers?

Or in other words, the way you are framing things makes it seem as if the IETF has with intent and malice chosen to 
extend or at the very least ignore exhaustion issues for actual internet users so as to rig the system for their 
preferred outcome.

> Some folks don't LIKE the solution, as is their right to do.

I agree. I like most of IPv6 just fine. Not SLAAC, not multicast l2 resolution, not addressing policy, not the chaos of 
choice of inadequate interoperability approaches, not the denial of features desired by users, not the pmtud, not the 
fragmentation, and many other warts. I dont even like the notation schemes. They require multiple vision passes.

I do like the extra bits. Just not the way they are being frittered.

The real crux of the matter is that it did not work. Address exhaustion has not been alleviated. For many years now and 
who knows how much longer.

> But the problem of V4 address exhaustion is NOT the same thing as "I 
> don't like the solution that they chose."

The problem of V4 address exhaustion is NOT the same thing as turn on
IPv6 and wait for the rest of the world to do the same.

When considered in that manner the IETF's bet looks even worse.

What I dont like is that they were wrong. What I dislike even more is that they refuse to admit it and learn from their 
mistakes.

Joe

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:18 PM Joe Maimon <jmaimon () jmaimon com 
> <mailto:jmaimon () jmaimon com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
>
>     >
>     > Well… It’s a consensus process. If your idea isn’t getting
>     consensus,
>     > then perhaps it’s simply that the group you are seeking
>     consensus from
>     > doesn’t like your idea.

Consensus processes are vulnerable to tyranny of a well positioned minority.

Joe