Re: quality of v6 connections [Re: unmanaged scope comments]

[Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>]

> Routing is independent of addressing.
No, it's not.  :-)

Seriously, I hear this statement a lot, and it is pretty clear to me
that routing is not independent of addressing, since IPv4 and IPv6
both imbed topological routing information in the address prefixes.

In what sense to do you consider routing and addressing to be independent?

> > What I'm trying to say is that the current 6bone should not be seen as a
> > model or a reference of the "ipv6 internet". it is a testbed, experimental
> > network, crash and burn, ...
>
> Sure.. sure.. but before we can have *any* credibility, we must have a
> network that is reasonably global.  Today that that is 6bone,
> unfortunately.
From what I heard in our meeting, NTT has a "reasonably global" commercial
IPv6 backbone active in Asia, Europe and North America...

Margaret