Re: Opportunistic Tunneling

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

> 
> > I think vendors can provide the infrastructure in their software that Bob
> talks > about (detecting existing IPv6 connectivity and prompting the user
> with "cool > application X needs IPv6 connectivity - should I set up such
> connectivity?").
> 
> would such a framework be a superset of the existing tranisition
> mechanisms, where the mechanism to be used would be selected based upon
> .... ? or would this actually be a new mechanism?
> 
> isn't there one software vendor that is already doing something similar
> when the user chooses to activate ipv6? is it something that needs to be
> standardized in the ietf?

I don't think this is something that needs to be standardized; this
is merely an issue of how the different software components (applications
and the protocol stack) on an implementation interact.

  Erik