Re: 6to4 usage scenarios

[Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>]

You're basically right.

   - Alain.

Pekka Savola wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It seems like the 6to4 security discussion degenerated into argument on 
> how it was meant to be used.
>
> There are two basic models of connecting 6to4 routers to relays:
>
> 1) simple static route to your relay
> 2) BGP sessions to your relay and all the other relays where you want to 
> receive native IPv6 packets from
>
> I know of _no_ deployments of 2) even though Brian insists on that being
> the only "real" 6to4 usage scenario.  Does anyone know this being used?
>
> If not, I think we must acknowledge that 2) is not really
> right-tool-for-the-job (think of 6over4 **), and that 1) is the primary
> (only?) applicability target of 6to4.
>
> The alternative is that we have gaping holes in Home/SOHO and partially 
> maybe enterprise transition scenarios, and nothing to fill them at the 
> moment.
>
> **) 6over4 is a nice technique, and we could even use it -- but we don't 
> want stuff like that.  The same IMO applies to 6to4+BGP.  There is no use 
> specifying mechanisms for the audience who does not want them.
>
> P.S. I only came to the wg after 6to4 had just gone RFC, this internal
> bickering really took me off surprise and made me both frustrated and
> angry about refusing to accept the reality.
>
>