RE: implications of 6to4 for v6coex

["Hemant Singh (shemant)" <shemant@cisco.com>]

James,

Unless a problem is of a Show Stopper nature, do we have to continue
this discussion?  I don't see any problem in your emails of a Show
Stopper nature.  It would be helpful if you could articulate a Show
Stopper problem in a sentence or two. That way, maybe the Montreal
interim meeting on ipv4 and ipv6 coexistence can discuss such issues. 

Hemant

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org] On
Behalf Of Joe Abley
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:39 PM
To: james woodyatt
Cc: IPv6 Operations
Subject: Re: implications of 6to4 for v6coex


On 16 Sep 2008, at 20:43, james woodyatt wrote:

> Won't somebody from a service provider *please* step up and explain 
> why they cannot and/or will not deploy 6to4 relay routers for the use 
> of their subscribers as the standards track documents currently 
> describe them?  The continuing silence from the operations community 
> on this topic is very troubling, but I suppose it's possible everyone 
> is still enjoying their copious allotment of holiday time.

Perhaps you're asking the wrong question. Perhaps there's no reason for
any operator not to deploy a 6to4 relay for use of their customers;
perhaps the problem instead is that there is no clear reason in the eyes
of those operators to bother.

Does it make the helpdesk phone ring less? Will it cause an average ISP
to win more customers this month? I suspect the pragmatic answer to both
is no.


Joe