[113084] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Google Over IPV6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TJ)
Wed Apr 1 11:21:46 2009
From: "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <49D2A332.50703@bogus.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:19:26 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> AFAIK you have to have native peering with them to be part of the
>>> pilot. At least, you did when we signed up. They may have relaxed
>>> that since.
>>
>> According to a Google IPv6 talk I attended yesterday, they don't
>> intend to relax that rule. Tunneling ipv6 connectivity over ipv4 is
>> trash quality engineering and to be honest, its not a credible
>> substitute for adequate ipv6 infrastructure.
>
><facetious>
>Tunneling ipv4 over mpls is trash quality engineering and it's not a =
credible
>substitute for adequate ipv4 infrastructure.
></facetious>
>
>Everything is a tunnel...
Indeed, but the differentiator here is that the transport for the tunnel =
in question also provides connectivity to the destination; i.e. - you =
can get to Google over IPv4. =20
You do not (or, atleast I do not :)) have the option of connecting to =
Google "over" MPLS, Ethernet, etc.
/TJ
