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by azdle 3744 days ago
Everyone take note that this is an individual v0 draft, it says "Type: Active Internet-Draft (individual)" and "Intended status: Standards Track". Before this becomes and RFC (if it ever does at all) it has to go through discussions as an individual draft, then it has to be voted to become standards track, at which point it will become a working group draft where it goes through more comments, editing, and waiting, and only then does it become an official RFC. To give you an idea of the time scale this is talking about, see that this version of this draft expires in September.

This is in no way some proclamation that IPv4 is no more, it's more like the obituaries that news papers have sitting around for public figures just in case they die. The IETF isn't quick at getting RFCs published, and it definitely won't be with something as big as this.
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zurn 3744 days ago
It's not voting exactly at the IETF, they nominally reject it[1]. Approximately it goes through the relevant working group (without voting but by "rough consensus"), IESG, various reviews and RFC editor.

[1] “We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code” - Dave Clark, quoted by http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/01/25-years-of-ietf-... for example

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riffic 3744 days ago
>IETF isn't quick at getting RFCs published

That's not entirely true. An RFC can get published very quickly. At this point there are almost 8000 of them.

Perhaps you are thinking of an Internet Standard document:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Standard

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