On killing IPv6 transition mechanisms

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:38:24PM +0900, Erik Kline wrote:
> > So I'd like to see these 150ms qualified - in this discussion, it seems
> > to be the assumption that "IPv6 will *always* be 150ms slower", which
> > is most definitely not the case.
> 
> Things definitely improved a bit (brought the average extra latency
> down to between 50 and 100 msec) when we started getting a different
> 2002::/16 at one point, IIRC.  

So this extra latency is only for 6to4 clients?

Now that doesn't me surprise at all :-) - but it's actually not that bad
at the end.  Operating systems with working policy tables[*] will not(!)
use 6to4 if a target site is dual-stacked, and native IPv4 connectivity 
exists - so you only see the extra latency if you go to a v6-only site
(or have v6-only testing pixels on your web site).

[*] with the exception of broken clients that bypass OS policy tables,
see the list archives for the affected Opera 10 versions

Gert Doering
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