IPv6 news

Sat Oct 15 15:53:07 UTC 2005

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Randy Bush wrote:

> it sounds as if you have the mythical separation of locator and 
> identifier :-)/2.  the problem is that there is likely to be a 
> shortage of those locators.

Yes ;^)

Note that it's not 6to4, it's a proper 2001:: /48 delegation via the 
SIXXS tunnel-broker, which is mine to use long as ISPs here do not 
deploy IPv6 ;).

> one problem with 6to4 is that having all traffic go through 
> gateways will not scale well.  to support v6-only folk, either the 
> number of 6to4 gateways will need to approach the number of dfz 
> routers, the dfz routers will run 6to4, or some combination 
> thereof.

ACK.

And 6to4 obviously won't fly for long after the 4 tank runs dry.

regards,
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