Re: Defintion of Automatic tunnels

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

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 06:38  AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Erik Nordmark wrote:
> > Brian,
> >
> > You seem to be making a "the market will decide" argument with respect
> > to 6to4 and tunnel brokers.
> > Is that correct?
> Not quite. My point is more that since the (so far revenue-free) market
> already seems to want both solutions, I don't see that a decision is 
> needed.
> Deployment has moved on since the v6ops charter was written.
Well, I think there is a lot of confusion in that space.
We have a number of early adopters who are using both techniques.
However, the number of 6to4 relays and tunnel brokers on the planet is 
still very small,
and the traffic is marginal. I think it is still early in this process.
IMHO, the jury is still out for many ISPs who would like to offer some 
kind of sparse,
commercial IPv6 service without deploying a full scale native 
infrastructure.
So I think it is still pertinent for the IETF to have an opinion on the 
matter
and to recommend one approach versus the other, or maybe both if it can 
be proven
that there are technical reasons to do so.

	- Alain.