Maybe it's time to talk about rational routing

[Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom]

if packets had airline miles, those would have some thousands :-)

--nvieira


----- Original Message -----
> Good news down under, it seems that TelstraClear is now supporting
> native IPv6, announced in Australia but observable in New Zealand
> too,
> with much less HE tunnel than before.
> 
> However, it seems to be time for a discussion about routing policy.
> The traceroute below reminds me of IPv4 around 1990. Is it really
> optimal to route from Auckland to Brisbane via Hong Kong and Los
> Angeles? Of course there are all the usual commercial constraints
> on policy, but this seems to be worse than that.
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\bcar071>tracert www.apnic.net
> 
> Tracing route to www.apnic.net [2001:dc0:2001:11::211]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
> 
>   1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  2001:df0:0:2006::254     % Uni
>   Auckland
>   2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  2001:df0:0:1::17:af
>   3    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  2001:4403:0:106::101     %
>   TELSTRACLEAR-V6-NZ-UNALLOCATED-20050513
>   4     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  2001:4403:0:106::1
>   5     1 ms     *        1 ms  2403:e800:fd18:fe00::1   % Reach
>   Global Internet HK
>   6   127 ms   127 ms   127 ms  i-0-0-4-0.tlot-core01.bx.reach.com
>   [::ffff:202.84.142.118]
>   7   127 ms   131 ms   127 ms  2001:504:13::24          %
>   ONE-WILSHIRE-PACKET-EXCHANGE
>   8   132 ms   127 ms   128 ms
>    10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.lax1.he.net [2001:504:0:3::6939:1]
>   9   126 ms   135 ms   126 ms
>    10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.lax2.he.net [2001:470:0:72::2]
>  10   135 ms   135 ms   135 ms  2001:504:13::3b
>  11   290 ms   290 ms   290 ms
>   pos-0-0-1.cor02.syd03.nsw.vocusconnect.net.au [2402:7800:0:1::ba]
>  12   290 ms   290 ms   290 ms
>   ten-1-3-0.cor01.syd03.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [2402:7800:0:1::59]
>  13   290 ms   290 ms   290 ms
>   ten-0-2-0.bdr01.syd01.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [2402:7800:0:1::c6]
>  14   302 ms   303 ms   303 ms  2402:7800:0:1::9e
>  15   303 ms   303 ms   303 ms  apnic.ipv6.brisbane.pipenetworks.com
>  [2001:7fa:9::4]
>  16   304 ms   303 ms   304 ms  2001:dc0:2001:11::211
> 
> Trace complete.
> 
>     Brian
>