[139828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast's 6to4 Relays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Apr 20 16:48:33 2011
In-Reply-To: <9D35C650-3D89-4859-91C7-900CA9406B57@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:44:10 -0400
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, "Brzozowski,
John" <John_Brzozowski@Cable.Comcast.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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>> The best way to make 6to4 diminish has always been and still remains:
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>> Deploy Native IPv6 Now.
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>> That's a plan and a necessity at this point, but, execution is still some=
what lagging.
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> Of course, Comcast *is* deploying native IPv6; see, for example,
> http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-January/031624.html
> It just takes a while -- and a non-trivial number of zorkmids -- to
> do things like replacing all of the non-v6 CPE.
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> --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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Comcast was not the target of my comment... The networks saying Comcast shou=
ldn't help the rest of the net by providing open 6to4 relays were the ones I=
was referring to.
I again applaud Comcast's leadership on IPv6 to the end user, even if they h=
aven't gotten
it to me yet. ;-)
Owen
