[89246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Heldal)
Mon Mar 6 03:28:31 2006
From: "Per Heldal" <heldal@eml.cc>
To: "Kurt Erik Lindqvist" <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <6A2804CB-428D-411B-880E-BCBAF55A03B4@kurtis.pp.se>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:28:00 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:59:18 +0100, "Kurt Erik Lindqvist"
<kurtis@kurtis.pp.se> said:
>
>
> On 3 mar 2006, at 04.13, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
> > I would be surprised if Shim6 going into actual deployed boxes was
> > any faster. So, if Shim6 was finalized today, which it won't be,
> > in 2010 we might have 70% deployment and in 2012 we might have 90%
> > deployment.
>
> OTOH Teredo, which isn't even a standard is in more or less all
> Windows XP boxes....
>
It illustrates an important difference in motivation. Is the primary
goal to solve a problem or to make a standard? Remember, quite a few
important technologies were implemented, tested and even in
production-use for a long time before standardisation (e.g. ssh).
//per
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