6bone connectivity

[Dorian R. Kim]

On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Dimitry Haskin wrote:

> To improve 6bone routing I propose to adopt the following
> policies:
> 
> - restrict the backbone sites to only those routers that
>   support RIPng;
> 
> - make the backbone routers to use exclusively RIPng to
>   route between themselves;
> 
> - the backbone routers can use static routes only to route
>   to their leaf clients;

I'd also like to see phasing out of static routes to non-directly connected
sites.

> - the backbone routers should not advertise default prefixes
>   (e.g. ::0/0 5f00::/16) between themselves.  It is ok
>   to advertise default prefixes to leaf clients;
> 
> - each backbone router should maintain a RIPng tunnel with
>   two or more other backbone routers.

I think these are excellent guidelines.

-dorian