<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Keith Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moore@network-heretics.com" target="_blank">moore@network-heretics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">The problem is that the advice is based on a false premise. Native
access is NOT yet widely available in many parts of the world. If
it were, there wouldn't be much 6to4 traffic, and turning off 6to4
relays wouldn't cause problems.</span><br></div></div></div>
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So a recommendation to drop 6to4 relays would, at the present time,
be a very harmful recommendation.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, but as far as I can see, the only alternatives are:</div><div><ol><li>Upgrade the box with 10G interfaces, incurring substantial cost.<br>
</li><li>Drop the packets, degrading service quality.<br></li></ol><div>Suppose operators take the position that they don't want to upgrade the relays because most of the traffic on them comes from third party networks, and thus #1 is infeasible. What then?</div>
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