Re: SECDIR review: draft-ietf-v6ops-tunnel-concerns

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

On 2009-01-11 18:13, Nathan Ward wrote:
> On 10/01/2009, at 12:08 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> 
>>> Hmm, it's probably worth noting that I'm talking about Windows hosts
>>> here. Linux hosts with a Teredo stack installed will not try ISATAP
>>> first.
>>
>> I may be able to help with that. Tell me what behavior
>> you want out of ISATAP on linux, and I'll code it...
> 
> 
> Support in major distributions seems like a good first step. I note that
> your code is now in 2.6.mumble though, that's a positive step.
> 
> While we're here, OS X and BSD support would be nice too.
> 
> There seems to be a bit of a lack of coherent vision for IPv6 support in
> OSes other than Windows. There are components - ie. 6to4, Teredo and
> ISATAP code - however there doesn't seem to be anything to relate them
> to one another so that 'end users' without a bunch of knowledge can use
> this stuff. A good first step would be to install+configure all three
> together as part of the "Enable IPv6" option. Along with that, take a
> DHCPv6 client, etc. etc.
> "Enable IPv6" in most OSes means do stateless autoconfig for native
> IPv6, and that's it.

Because that was the ~1996 vision, and the current vision hasn't really
been articulated clearly (RFC4294 is really just a laundry list).
Kudos to Microsoft, but perhaps the IETF needs to write down what's
needed.

    Brian