[c-nsp] RIPE 554, availability of required IPv6 features

[William F. Maton Sotomayor]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Peter Rathlev wrote:

> We have an RFP out for L2 aggregation equipment and have included the
> two sections of RIPE 554's "Requirements for enterprise/ISP grade
> \"Layer 2 switch\" equipment". One is a list of mandatory requirements
> listing the following:
[snip]
> We're hearing a complaint that these features are simply not generally
> available. I would've guessed that an official RIPE document with a

Lo siento.

We've just done a similar procurement guideline document over at the
$dayjob and I won't be surprised to hear of complaints.  However, some 14
years after Nortel fielded a limited beta (did you just do a double-take?)
of IPv6 in these parts, my sympathies for lack of support today is
significantly down.

We didn't mandate RIPE 554, but certainly referenced it and USGv1 (among
other things) and may mandate it in the future.  In any case this was done 
as a warning shot.

> Are my assumptions wrong? We're (in part politically) not allowed to
> require anything that only one or two vendors would be able to fulfill,
> though something that lives up to one of the three points above
> shouldn't be a problem.

I think this is a sensible strategy.  At least for us we can make course 
corrections to the guideline as needed.

wfms