we need better "join the 6bone tools"

[Dancer]

"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> 
> It has become apparent that we need some better tools for helping
> organizations trying to play with v6 find 6bone connectivity. The
> current method is basically "hunt through long lists and try to find
> someone sympathetic", which is going to break down if we start getting
> any real volume out.

Especially since the lists and info tend to age rapidly. Lancashire's
pages (until a few days ago) hadn't been updated for months (the
automatic process that munges them out of the registry must have broken
down).

I was lucky. Out in Australia, there wasn't a lot of choice, so the list
was short, and Trumpet made the top of it, since Peter was generating
mail traffic on the lists.

> 
> What I'd like to do is to get some web pages, hopefully dual-hosted at
> www.6bone.net and www.ipv6.org, that are broken down geographically
> and by "netspace location" (i.e. major backbone provider) that list
> organizations explicitly willing to give out tunnels in those
> physical/virtual locations. That way, you can locate the five or ten
> organizations to talk to quickly instead of hunting down five URLs and
> going through long lists.
> 
> We really need various tunnel broker things eventually, but this

You mean as in a bunch of preallocated networks and tunnel connection
points that could be handed out on a semi-automated basis? Or am I
misinterpreting?

> should only take a volunteer a matter of hours to set up, and it will
> be done. An imperfect solution, but one that we could have up in days.
> 
> I'll happily give anyone willing to maintain such a thing an account
> on www.ipv6.org so they can do the work.

Really good idea. Unable to help with the work, but the idea is great,
and much needed.