[6bone] proposal for transfer of 6bone address management responsibilities to RIRs

Nicolas DEFFAYET nicolas.deffayet@ndsoftware.net
21 Aug 2002 01:55:22 +0200


On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 01:51, Robert Kiessling wrote:
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> 
> > Agreed.  6bone is essential for those areas of the internet
> > where the "normal" providers do not offer ipv6 yet.
> 
> 6bone is a major source of instability for the production IPv6 network
> and thus hinders deployment of IPv6.

Not fully agree.
The problem of instability can be do by sTLA.

> 
> You cannot seriously recomment anyone to trust production services to
> a network in which a single faulty BGP implementation can and does
> repeatedly bring down half the network (as recenty seen by AS1654).

The problem of AS1654 can be too on production network...

> 
> > It would be a shame if the ipv6 community would kick it's
> > current user community out the door...
> 
> There's now a lot of production IPv6 connectivity available, and I'm
> pretty sure that the backbone which now deploy IPv6 natively can agree
> to provide sufficient IPv6 connecticity, in return for a stable
> network.

Not in all city and in all country...

Regards,

Nicolas DEFFAYET