IPv6 Now an Internet Standard (STD 86)

[eaadams]

Old hands here will know me as an IPv6 fanboi, so it gives me great pleasure to announce that this protocol has finally been adapted as an Internet Standard by the IETF. RFC8200 is now where all things IPv6 reside.
18 years in the making but it is now a Standard. Hopefully this means vendors and users will notch up their implementation - in the past I know that the lack of a real definite standard has made some hesitant to really run with IPv6, but it's here now 
The article also describes the IETF's Draft - RFC - Standard process; yes, if you work in this industry these tiresome processes are important to know; you should be aspiring to contributing to the development of the technology that you work with, not just implementing it.
btw, the Internet Society which has published this article, and sits above the technical IETF in the hierarchy of Internet organisations, is an open and free international organisation that anyone can join. And so endth my sermon for the day 
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2017/07/rfc-8200-ipv6-has-been-standardized/

[icecream-guy]

should be FC8200  just to be IPV6 compatible.

[deanwebb]

Old hands here will know me as an IPv6 fanboi, so it gives me great pleasure to announce that this protocol has finally been adapted as an Internet Standard by the IETF. RFC8200 is now where all things IPv6 reside.
18 years in the making but it is now a Standard. Hopefully this means vendors and users will notch up their implementation - in the past I know that the lack of a real definite standard has made some hesitant to really run with IPv6, but it's here now 
The article also describes the IETF's Draft - RFC - Standard process; yes, if you work in this industry these tiresome processes are important to know; you should be aspiring to contributing to the development of the technology that you work with, not just implementing it.
btw, the Internet Society which has published this article, and sits above the technical IETF in the hierarchy of Internet organisations, is an open and free international organisation that anyone can join. And so endth my sermon for the day 
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2017/07/rfc-8200-ipv6-has-been-standardized/

Hear, hear, well spoken! And, yes, I do hope IPv6 catches on. There are some amazing things about it that make it worth all the extra letters and numbers it brings to the table.