6to4 stats found, are there other places?

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Apr 18 13:02:58 CEST 2011


On 18 Apr 2011, at 11:41, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:38:27AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> 1. make it not be on by default
>> 2. make noise about it being A Bad Thing
>> 3. deprioritise 2002::/16 addresses in resolver libs
>> 4. then make the option hard to find on operating systems / CPEs
>> 5. then remove the option on operating systems
>> 6. then slowly decommission 6to4 relays over many years
> 
> Just for the record: support.
> 
> Gert Doering
>        -- Operator

Progressing RFC3484-bis also alongside #3 helps a lot.   It's that lack of RFC3484 support in past versions of MacOS X that's caused bigger issues for Mac users.

Somewhere in there there should also be a 'don't use 6to4 for Internet connection sharing', which causes a lot of the problems.

Tim



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