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Could we *please* stop with the "Foo has submitted Bar to the IETF stories"? Paul Hoffman – Jul 22, 2008 2:13 PM PST

The fact that there is a first draft by someone who works at company Foo in the IETF drafts directory is meaningless. There are a zillion of them.

Alain works for Comcast, but he has already said that he wants to work with others on this. Thus, his employer becomes irrelevant.

Further, this is not meant to initially become a standard. It is being submitted as information so that people can think about the topic more and maybe do some experimenting.

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The company is significant Kjetil Torgrim Homme – Jul 23, 2008 1:32 AM PST

The story would not be interesting if it was about some employee who happened to work at Comcast submitting a draft. Luckily, the real story here is that Comcast, the second largest ISP in the US, is actively working to roll out IPv6 for their customers. Hurrah!

Reaching out to the IETF community is win-win — Comcast gets their plan reviewed for technical problems, and the IETF gets better insight in the real world problems of deployment. (Note, I have only skimmed the draft.)

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The solution is significant Paul Hoffman – Jul 23, 2008 7:04 AM PST

It's nice that Comcast is working to roll out IPv6, but that's not the topic of the story. The story is about a specific solution. Notice that the article said "Durand points out that Comcast has not yet committed to using Dual-Stack Lite internally".

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Right, they haven't committed to Kjetil Torgrim Homme – Jul 23, 2008 8:01 AM PST

Right, they haven't committed to using Dual-Stack Lite, but they are actively pursuing a solution which will bring IPv6 to their customers. They are taking a leadership role among US ISPs (academia excluded), and this was news to me, at least.

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