Re: [74attendees] The great emphasis on IPv6 - a positive look

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

On 2009-03-26 05:05, james woodyatt wrote:
> [moving discussion into V6OPS from 74attendees]

[and dropping 74attendees]

> 
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 08:03, Rémi Després wrote:
>>
>> RFC 3068 (An Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers) does more harm
>> than good. IMHO, it should be deprecated.
> 
> I would support that, providing first that 6RD is A) adopted as a
> proposed standard, and B) comes to see more widespread deployment than
> 6to4.  I also believe the latter is very likely to happen contingent on
> the former, so I would vigorously support taking up 6RD as a working
> group activity.

Firstly, I think 6RD is worthy of consideration, although I'm not sure
it should be here rather than 6MAN or even individual submission to
an AD.

Secondly, I think it's quite premature to deprecate the 6to4 anycast
method. Of course, I would have preferred to see 6to4 deployed as
described in RFC3056 (i.e. relay addresses would be specific unicast
addresses) but we can't put the toothpaste back in the tube at this
point. In a few years 6to4 should fade away spontaneously. Meanwhile
we need to live with it, e.g. draft-nward-6to4-qualification.

    Brian