APNIC IPv6 transit exchange

[Michael Horn]

Joe, Jeroen, List,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Joe Abley wrote:

> On 29-Nov-2007, at 03:21, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>
>> This looks a bit like APNIC is going back to the 6bone days.
>> Odd, I always got the impression that IPv6 was doing fine in that
>> area.... clearly I was wrong and Europe is definitely in the lead.
>> I am also really wondering how several IPv6 transits, and in this case
>> especially the good folks from NTT are liking this.
>
> It has been my experience that when you phrase things in an AF-neutral way in 
> conversations with operators in Australia and New Zealand it mainly leads to 
> bitter, cynical laughter, "yeah, like *we* have any IPv6 down here". In that 
> context, the ability to plumb tunnels to Brisbane rather than California 
> probably represents a win.

I guess Jeroens point was not the tunneling (which is ok, if there is no
other decent way to achieve v6 connectivity and the topology the tunnel is
built uppon is reliable and of short distance) but opposes to the idea
of the exchange of full routing tables between peers. full table swaps
would lead to problems that rather delay successful deployment of quality
IPv6. If that is really what APNIC is planing then i am concerned.

michael