[ipv6-wg] Disband IPv6 WG

Am 03.10.19 um 17:11 schrieb Tim Chown:
>> On 3 Oct 2019, at 16:02, Jens Link <lists at quux.de> wrote:
>>
>> Tim Chown <Tim.Chown at jisc.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> (Surprised we’re having this conversation in 2019, as the final fumes of
>>> IPv4 address space disappear from Europe…)
>> If you had told me 10 or even 5 years ago that I would be having the
>> conversation in 2019 I would have laughed at you. Now it's a very sad
>> situation. IPv4 has won.

Well, the source for "new" IPv4 addresses is finally drying out in the RIPE region, so I do not agree with "IPv4 has won"; it lived an amazing life so far and is, since several years, transitioning into it's evening of life. I wouldn't bet on a date when IPv4 in the public Internet will be shut down, though. Not even a decade, to be honest ...

>> I had a discussion over lunch about v6 yesterday (which is part of the
>> reason I started this today) and all I heard "but that is different
>> then IPv4. I don't like this!" 
>
> There will always be a legacy tail. The dinosaurs can wallow in their swamp.

Some of those dinosauers are still in their diapers, though.

> Those who deploy v6 will benefit from it. Others will feel the heat of not moving; here in the UK it’s Sky and BT who have between them ~10M households on IPv6.  That’s not failure.

No, it's a start; over here in Germany, most mobile operators give you RFC6890 or RFC1918 addresses, still. Cable operators hand out DS (-Lite, mostly) for consumers, (semi-) fixed IPv4 (no DS) for commercial clients. FritzVPN, the VPN solution of popular CPE maker AVM, still fails completely with IPv6, both as transport and as payload. All in all, it's more failure than success (and even progress is fscking slow; Vodafone is allegedly starting somethings like DS-lite on mobile these days, o2 on mobiles uses public v6 a long time already — for VoLTE, but not data). But then it's Germany, where anything IP is Neuland anyway.

> New communities will benefit. For example, the largest science experiments are now migrating to IPv6, e.g., CERN and WLCG is 70% there, SKA will use it.

But will they go the whole way, i. e. make their stuff accessible from the outside, including informational webservers and other infrastructure (DNS, MX), v6-only? Until much used resources go v6-only, there's no chance in hell that "[o]thers will feel the heat of not moving", as everyone still makes everything available via v4.

So, why not make ripe.net v6-only by 2020-01-01, as RIPE NCC's IPv4 pool will have run dry by then anyway?



Am 03.10.19 um 13:11 schrieb Joao Luis Silva Damas:
> On 3 Oct 2019, at 12:58, Uros Gaber <uros at ub330.net <mailto:uros at ub330.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> Wow, first I had to look at today's date, I thought this was a April Fools joke mail.
>
> Did you also look at the From?, because that’s not the one I expected if I instinctively expanded the name to that of someone I know, like the wg co-chair or so.

Well, off-topic, but more noteworthy, the RIPE NCC mailservers are, as of today, still running Exim 4.92.2, remotely exploitable according to CVE-2019-16928.



Am 03.10.19 um 12:34 schrieb Jens Link:
> Hi,
>
> after now almost 12 years using, working and teaching[1]
> IPv6 I've come to the conclusion that IPv6 is a mistake and will
> not work.
According to the mailing list archive, "[t]he IPv6 Working Group is for anyone with an interest in the next generation Internet Protocol. The activities of the WG include education and outreach, sharing deployment experiences and discussing and fixing operational issues". So, Jens shared his IPv6 deployment experiences ("isn't happening"), maybe there's something the IPv6 WG can do to enforce IPv6 deployment? BTW, at least in terms of availability v6 is the current, v4 the legacy Internet Protocol, maybe that wording should be updated?

Regards,
-kai
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