Re[2]: Announcing 2003::/16 during tests of "shipworm"

[Sascha 'sb' Bielski]

Dear Paul Timmins,

On Freitag, 7. Dezember 2001 at 05:17 you wrote:

PT> Something like this can become very useful for people trapped behind 
PT> firewalls that cannot yet do IPv6, and will be useful until IPv6 is 
PT> ubiquitous enough to garner enough support for all companies to support 
PT> IPv6 in production hardware.

Then Microsoft should use their own ranges. They can test that with
3ffe space, too. There is no need to pollute the main routing table!

PT> Also, I heard there are a few cablemodem providers that block non tcp/udp 
PT> protocols to prevent use of IPSEC by telecommuters and it breaks IPv6 over 
PT> IPv4. Shall these people just be isolated until their providers can get 
PT> their act together?

No. Sure, Microsoft does good work with this protocol, but again:
There is no need to pollute the global routing table!

PT> I could see this being useful to me. Hopefully the standard that is 
PT> published is the standard that Microsoft sticks to when implementing this 
PT> in a release of their OS, so it can be implemented by other platforms.
PT> My god, I'm not only thanking Microsoft, I'm sticking up for them too. What 
PT> is this world coming to?
PT> -Paul

I would support them, to. But Microsoft thinks "we are god, we can
pollute what we want" and that's really bad. Their Peers should
really filter such invalid routes.

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