Transition and Coexistence Including Testing BOF (TACIT)

Reported by Geoff Huston/Australian Academic and Research Network

The Transition and Coexistence Including Testing BOF (TACIT) met on
Wednesday 29 March.  The BOF discussed the issues relating to transition
and coexistence in general terms as they relate to the constituency of
the Internet, and also discussed the specific issues relating to
potential IPng transition environments.  The view was expressed that the
characteristics and potential timeframe of transition, coexistence and
testing processes will be greatly influenced through the interplay of
market forces within the Internet, and that any IPng transition plan
should recognise these motivations and provide ample levels of
opportunity identification to encourage the broad Internet constituency
to subscribe to the transition process (and therefore undertake to meet
the associated deployment costs of such transition).  The group decided
to recommend to the IPng Area Directorate to form a working group to
explore the generic issues of the IPng transition process and gather
experience from previous technology transition that have occured both
within the Internet and within related networking technologies.  A draft
charter was reviewed, with the view that this working group would
contribute to the IETF IPng process by identifying these issues and
reviewing IPng transition plans at the appropriate phase of the IPng
process.


Attendees

Michael Anello           mike@xlnt.com
Tony Bates               tony@ripe.net
Jim Bound                bound@zk3.dec.com
Scott Bradner            sob@harvard.edu
Robert Brenner           Robert.W.Brenner@gte.sprint.com
Ross Callon              rcallon@wellfleet.com
Brian Carpenter          brian@dxcoms.cern.ch
Chris Chiotasso          chris@lightstream.com
Alex Conta               conta@lassie.lkg.dec.com
Tom Easterday            tom@cic.net
Kjeld Borch Egevang      kbe@craycom.dk
Havard Eidnes            havard.eidnes@runit.sintef.no
Erik Fair                fair@apple.com
Roger Fajman             raf@cu.nih.gov
Eric Fleischman          ericf@atc.boeing.com
Peter Ford               peter@goshawk.lanl.gov
Paul Francis             francis@cactus.slab.ntt.jp
Shoji Fukutomi           fuku@furukawa.co.jp
Shawn Gillam             shawn@timonware.com
Peter Grehan             grehan@flotsm.ozy.dec.com
Chris Gunner             gunner@dsmail.lkg.dec.com
Denise Heagerty          denise@dxcoms.cern.ch
Robert Hinden            hinden@eng.sun.com
Kathy Huber              khuber@wellfleet.com
Geoff Huston             g.huston@aarnet.edu.au
Yoshinobu Inoue          shin@hodaka.mfd.cs.fujitsu.co.jp
Vince Jones              72077.1615@compuserve.com
Matthew Jonson           jonson@ddn.af.mil
Mark Knopper             mak@aads.net
Joshua Littlefield       josh@cayman.com
Kim Long                 klong@nysernet.org
Allison Mankin           mankin@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Matt Mathis              mathis@psc.edu
Greg Minshall            minshall@wc.novell.com
Dennis Morris            morrisd@cc.ims.disa.mil
Phil Nesser              pjnesser@rocket.com
Erik Nordmark            nordmark@eng.sun.com
Yakov Rekhter            yakov@watson.ibm.com
Ron Roberts              rgr@stanford.edu
Duncan Rogerson          d.rogerson@nosc.ja.net
Chris Seabrook           cds@ossi.com
Frank Solensky           solensky@ftp.com
Bernhard Stockman        boss@ebone.net
Tim Streater             t.c.streater@dante.org.uk
John Tavs                tavs@vnet.ibm.com
Richard Thomas           rjthomas@bnr.ca
Jerry Toporek            jt@mentat.com
Robert Ullmann           rullmann@crd.lotus.com
Maria Vistoli            vistoli@infn.it
William Warner           warner@ohio.gov
Jane Wojcik              jwojcik@bbn.com
Paul Zawada              Zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu