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Re: v6 Avian Carriers?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Fri Apr 1 13:46:36 2011

From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <DC8E31C01757B14EB9DFF2F0B6DA4F0C2BF0DF041F@FHDP1LUMXC7V21.us.one.verizon.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 13:45:54 -0400
To: "Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)" <marcus.sachs@verizon.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:41 11AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote:

> I was wondering which April 1st this would happen on.   Now I know.  =
So if a v6 carrier swallows a v4 datagram does that count as packet loss =
or tunneling?
>=20
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/
>=20

I was disappointed in this RFC -- Section 3.1 didn't include the proper =
discussion of the difference between African and European avian =
carriers, and we know what happens if that question is asked at the =
wrong time.
>=20


		--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb







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