6bone maps

[Bob Fink LBNL]

=46rank,

>What do you think about using a more sophisticated tool for drawing
>these 6bone maps. One tool I think of (why ever ;-) is tkined
>(http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/tkined/welcome.html). It may
>be used to draw maps with some more information than just the
>interconnection of IPv6 islands, e.g. those islands may get expanded,
>to get more information on their internal structures and addresses.
>Of course, simple postscript maps may be extracted.
>
>One major problem would be, to keep the information up to date. ;-/
>
>To get an impression (not more), you might take a look at a few
>links at the bottom of http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~strauss/ipng/.

Thanks for bringing this up. I really believe that, in the long run, it
would be best to auto generate the maps.  As you point out, we would need
to have an up to date registry, which hopefully is what Geert Jan's efforts
are all about.

=46or me, unfortunately, this form of drawing is not directly viewable on my
Mac as I could not find a tkined viewer.  Also, I still must print .ps
files to look at them.  Unix users may not have these problems of course.
Can it be taught to generate .gif files?  I'm pretty clueless about tkined
:-(

I say we do both manual and auto maps for awhile, till it is clear that the
registry gives sufficient data for the map to be up-to-date, and that we
like the auto gen'd result.

Would you be willing to set up a process (code!) to generate a map from
Geert Jan's registry?  It would probably have the effect of forcing people
to register :-)



Thanks again,

Bob