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

[Philip Homburg <pch-v6ops@u-1.phicoh.com>]

>> There are many people (myself included) that are happily using 6to4, 
>> and we're using 6to4 because the ISPs available to us are utterly and 
>> completely clueless, so we don't really have any other option.  If the 
>> 6to4 anycast goes away and you require the ISP to deploy something for 
>> the replacement technology, you are effectively cutting us off from 
>> the IPv6 Internet for the foreseeable future.
>The point is that ISPs, rather than setting up a 6to4 relay router 
>should setup a 6rd Gateway in order to offer native IPv6 prefix to their 
>customers.

I wonder, what if ISPs who want to do an '6rd' like thing would announce
longer prefixes than just 2002::/16. For example an ISP who has customers
in an IPv4 /16 can announce 2002:xxyy::/32.

To me it seems like that would end the 2002::/16 blackhole problem for that
ISP's customers.


Philip Homburg