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

["Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 18:05:36 james woodyatt wrote:
> [moving discussion into V6OPS from 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.

Anycast 6to4 has problems. I guess Nathan Ward will present some of those. 6RD 
solves many of the shortcomings of 6to4, _assuming_the_ISP_deploys_it_.

But lest we deprecate the entire scenario of automatic IPv6 setup without ISP 
support, I fail to see how 6RD can replace anycast 6to4.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont