[139781] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast's 6to4 Relays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Tue Apr 19 17:50:31 2011
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:50:14 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: "Brzozowski, John" <John_Brzozowski@Cable.Comcast.com>
In-Reply-To: <C9CF4FF8.FC6BF%john_brzozowski@cable.comcast.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 04/19/2011 13:44, Brzozowski, John wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Since deploying our 6to4 relays, Comcast has observed a substantial
> reduction in the latency associated with the use of 6to4. As such we are
> contemplating further opening our relays for use by others. The
> availability of our 6to4 relays should improve the experience of others
> using 6to4 as a means to access content and services over IPv6.
>
> We have been open about our IPv6 activities and wanted to follow suit by
> reaching out to the community and soliciting feedback before moving
> forward. As always we wish to continue to advocate and support the
> universal deployment of IPv6.
>
> Please send any comments or questions to the list or if you wish to me
> directly.
Presumably you(pl.) are aware of the following 2 drafts, which are in
WGLC now, and seem likely to be adopted (at least in some form):
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-advisory
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic
At minimum one would hope that you're heeding the warnings in the first.
Another view (one that I personally hold) is that any effort you might
be putting into making 6to4 work better would be better placed in
deploying real IPv6 instead; and that the world would be a better place
generally if all of the so-called "transition mechanisms" just went away.
Doug
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