Re: 6to4 relays [Re: WG Review: IPv6 Operations (v6ops)]

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Francis Dupont wrote:
> > 
> >  In your previous mail you wrote:
> > 
> >    > => I am not convinced by 6to4. For instance by the 6to4-relay concept.
> > 
> >    6to4 relays cause some rather interesting problems, especially relating to
> >    quality of service (too few of them at the moment, leading to huge
> >    delays connecting to 6to4 nodes from some areas).
> 
> If the worst problem with 6to4 is already a purely operational one,
> I'm not at all distressed, and I wonder whether we can encourage
> all XPs to operate a 6to4 relay?

I wonder if we can encourage Microsoft implementations not to assume bogus 
things about 6to4 relays.  Like it having the address 
'2002:<RELAY_IPv4>::<RELAY_IPv4>'.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
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