RE: WG Review: IPv6 Operations (v6ops)

["Hesham Soliman (EAB)" <hesham.soliman@era.ericsson.se>]

  > >=> Well, not everyone has to use 6-to-4 in a pure IP
  > >backbone. If they don't use 6-to-4 they need some other
  > >way of discovering the tunnel end point, I think the 
  > >BGP extensions do that job well. How else would you 
  > >do it, 6-to-4 for every site? 
  > 
  > 	what do you mean by 6-to-4?  assuming that you mean 
  > IPv6 over IPv4
  > 	tunnel, you can deal with it well enough with manual 
  > configuration.
  > 	you don't need any automation.
  > 	(you know, ISPs set up IBGP full mesh manually so we 
  > can deal with
  > 	it too)

=> Are ISPs also happy to setup there EGPs manually? 
I don't understand why we should drop something that makes
it either to setup tunnels instead of relying on manual
configuration. Just because people do it manually 
today is not enough to justify dropping it. If people
did that a few years ago, DHCP would not have been developed :)

Hesham