6to4 status (again)

Ignatios Souvatzis ignatios at cs.uni-bonn.de
Fri Mar 1 08:56:19 CET 2013


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:15:12AM -0500, Brzozowski, John Jason wrote:
> Keith we feel this way as such we deployed 6to4 relays.  Since our
> customers were using the same we wanted to make sure it worked as well as
> it could even though 6to4 offers a sub-optimal experience similar to other
> tunneling technologies we ran trials for but did not deploy.  One of the
> main differences with 6to4 is it is there whether we want it to be or not,
> this is a bi-product of decisions that were made collectively year ago.
> 
> We do feel that 6to4 traffic will go up before it goes down as native IPv6
> deployment increases.  Only when native IPv6 reaches reaches a tipping
> point do I believe 6to4 we will see a decline in 6to4 traffic and usage.

I wonder if I should try to add 6to4 *outgoing* on our router here,
so that at least the back path from our Web server wouldn't touch 
some anycast 2002::/16 device out there.

	-is


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