mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

Anyone here care to share operator perspectives shim6 and the like? Do
we actually have anything that anyone considers workable (not whether
somebody can make it happen, but viable in a commercial environment) for
mh?

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There is no operational or implementation experience with shim6 at this time, that I know of (the technical specifications for shim6 are currently incomplete). The shim6 working group has its first meeting in August in Paris, after which the goal is to progress quickly to a set of specifications which can be implemented.

As an easy-to-read overview of the shim6 approach, the following rough draft may be useful:

   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-arch-00.txt

Joe