Who is stilll running 6to4 relays (Was: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-08.txt)

[Jeroen Massar]

BCC'ing ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de thus a bit of background info:

draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-08.txt currently contains:

Section 4 "Deprecation"
8<------------------------
   Current operators of an anycast 6to4 relay with the IPv4 address
   192.88.99.1 SHOULD review the information in [RFC6343] and the
   present document, and then consider carefully when the anycast relay
   can be discontinued as traffic diminishes.  Internet service
   providers SHOULD filter out routes to 192.88.99.1.  However, networks

   SHOULD NOT filter out packets whose source address is 192.88.99.1,
   because this is normal 6to4 traffic from a 6to4 return relay
   somewhere in the Internet.
------------------------>8

Hence this BCC to poll what the operators of these current relays think
about this and what they think they will do.

Note that the discussion is really taking place on v6ops at ietf.org hence
to post you either have to be (temporarily) subscribed and/or post
anyway and wait for one of the listadmins to approve your messages.

Below the view that RIPEs RIS thinks are the current 6to4 anycast relays.

On 2014-11-19 08:35, Tim Chown wrote:
[..]
> I wonder what the first publicly announced IPv4 6to4 relay was.
> Perhaps SWITCH (via Simon Leinen) or FUNET (Pekka Savola)?
> I remember the days of SWITCH’s relay being a world 6to4 magnet.
>
> Would be poetic to let them be the last to switch off too, if they’re still running :)

Afaik the SWITCH one is gone for a long long time already.
FUNET is still up, but only limited in BGP, only RRC13 in Moscow sees
it, which is funny as for instance RRC07 in Stockholm does not.

The list:
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/looking-glass#w.resource=192.88.99.1

 8903 = ES BT Espana
 6939 = US Hurricane Electric*
 7575 = AU AARnet
16150 = SE Availo (Port80)*
12779 = IT ItGate*
 1103 = NL Surfnet*
 8954 = NL Intouch*
15598 = DE QSC AG
28917 = RU FIORD AS
21416 = RU TCINET
 1741 = FI FUNET*
 8359 = RU MTS
44581 = SE AllTele


Note that only 6939/7575/8903 are 'globally' visible, others seem to
have very limited announcement.

* = person who operates it is well known, all of which will be on
ipv6-ops@ hence, BCCd them that way to get them into the loop on this
discussion as they will be the folks disabling those boxes or not.

Greets,
 Jeroen