Re: WG Review: IPv6 Operations (v6ops)

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Brian Haberman wrote:
> Pekka Savola wrote:
> > 
> > There are two cases, I think:
> > 
> > 1) network (ISP/core) transition.  Folks who feel stuff like IGP or BGP
> > tunneling is really needed etc.
> 
> Is this really the case?  

Yes.  Why else would they have been specified and (in the case of BGP 
tunneling) implemented by a few vendors (Cisco, Juniper a least) -- the 
customers are asking for them.

> The large operators I have talked to don't
> want any transition tools in their core.  They see 6to4, ISATAP, NAT-PT,
> various tunneling mechanisms, etc. as a leaf network solution.  Their
> core is native v6.

That's my view too.

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