"IETF servers aren't for testing"

Hi,

Yesterday in the plenary in response to a request for making the IETF  
servers IPv6-capable, I believe Leslie said we shouldn't use IETF  
servers for testing.

In and of itself I fully agree with that statement. However, the  
assumption that IPv6 is an experimental protocol and enabling it on  
the various IETF servers should be considered "testing" isn't exactly  
a glowing endorsement of 10 years of IETF work.

It sounds distasteful, but we should really be eating your own dog food.

Limiting myself to the www.ietf.org webservers (yes, this address  
points to two different hosts) it appears this site runs on:

Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.0.40 OpenSSL/ 
0.9.7a

Even though these Apache versions are 2 - 3 years old (with many  
vulnerabilities found and fixed in the mean time), they're fully  
capable of supporting IPv6, as are Red Hat Linux versions of around  
the same age.

It would be a nice way to mark 7 years of RFC 2460 (or 10 years of  
RFC 1883, both were published in december) and the closing of the  
IPv6 wg with addition of IPv6 to at least the IETF WWW servers.

(BTW a big "yuck" for being behind two-faced DNS here at the IETF  
meeting venue.)

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