Re: towards phasing out the 6bone

[bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com]

	will -ALL- 3ffe routes be filtered?  i don't  think
	this wil be the case.

--bill


On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:29:15PM -0800, Robert Fink wrote:
> Jinmei,
> 
> Your point is a valid one. I will start sending regular reminders to
> the 6bone mail list on 1 Jan 06 and repeat them regularly till 6/6/06.
> 
> In spite of that, many nets will ignore these warnings and thus have
> to take the consequences when all 3FFE routes are filtered out as of
> 6/6/06, and I guess that's just the way it will have to be.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On 12/25/05, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> wrote:
> > (Not sure if the v6ops list is the appropriate forum for this topic,
> > but I cannot think of a better place)
> >
> > Dear authors of RFC3701,
> >
> > according to the RFC the 6bone prefix (3ffe::/16) will be phased out
> > on June 2006 and IPv6 routes that match the prefix may be filtered
> > thereafter.
> >
> > However, there still seem to be a non-negligible number of 6bone
> > prefixes advertised in the global IPv6 Internet.  For example,
> > http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as1221/bgptable.txt
> > list 95 6bone prefixes exchanged via BGP (most of which seem pTLA
> > prefixes).
> >
> > My question is: shouldn't the IETF take some action for smooth
> > phase-out, avoiding sudden disruption of running services?  For
> > example, shouldn't we send a reminder message about the phase-out plan
> > to the 6bone pTLA operators?  Or are we simply trusting the operators
> > to stop using the prefixes (and probably migrate to production
> > prefixes) by the deadline?
> >
> >                                         JINMEI, Tatuya
> >                                         Communication Platform Lab.
> >                                         Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
> >                                         jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
> >