[6bone] pTLA request by Euro6IX project for exchangeexperimentation - review closes 3 Sep 2002

[Joao Luis Silva Damas]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
>
> > Come on, these two cases were OK up to the point where people could not
> > get any other type of IPv6 addresses but now they are just normal
> > businness.
>
> Yeah right.  I doubt ipv6 is that widely available already.

That is not the point. It doesn't matter whether it is deployed or not,
what matters is whether it is deployable or not.

Insisting in calling addresses that are being used to provide plain
services, just like in IPv4, "experimental" is quite the same as calling
IPv6 itself experimental.

In the same way, giving out "special" addresses to developers of
applications which use IPv6 to get packets accross is quite the same as
giving a sofwtare company special IPv4 addresses to test their new web
browser.
Come on...

>
> > Only case A really merits 6Bone addresses, because items in that
> > category would have the potential to disrupt an operating Internet
> > using IPv6 in some of its areas.
>
> The fact that you use "an operating internet" instead of
> "the internet" is telling.  IPv6 just isn't commonplace yet.
>

Read the sentence again. That is not what it implies. IPv6 machines are
much better off than the poor people seating behind NATs.

Regards,
Joao