Google Over IPV6

Wed Apr 1 15:19:26 UTC 2009

>>> AFAIK you have to have native peering with them to be part of the
>>> pilot.  At least, you did when we signed up.  They may have relaxed
>>> that since.
>>
>> According to a Google IPv6 talk I attended yesterday, they don't
>> intend to relax that rule.  Tunneling ipv6 connectivity over ipv4 is
>> trash quality engineering and to be honest, its not a credible
>> substitute for adequate ipv6 infrastructure.
>
><facetious>
>Tunneling ipv4 over mpls is trash quality engineering and it's not a credible
>substitute for adequate ipv4 infrastructure.
></facetious>
>
>Everything is a tunnel...

Indeed, but the differentiator here is that the transport for the tunnel in question also provides connectivity to the destination; i.e. - you can get to Google over IPv4.  
You do not (or, atleast I do not :)) have the option of connecting to Google "over" MPLS, Ethernet, etc.

/TJ