[6bone] separating IPv6 experimental from production traffic

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Gert Doering wrote:
> "Full transit to everybody" was a good idea to get a pretty tightly 
> meshed IPv6 network into place, which is *good* because it means that
> you have (typically) only few AS hops to traverse - and thus fewer 
> networks in between that can mess up your routing.

And quality (or lack thereof) is equally indeterminate everywhere; as-path
length tells *nothing* about optimal paths, ...

Hierarchy is good.
 
> Won't help against Ghosts, of course, but there is nothing besides
> establishment of a clear upstream/downstream structure and strong
> filtering on the downstream BGP sessions to fix *that*.

Yep.

The question is whether we want to evolve 6bone network (very difficult,
but only if some transits would step up, *some* process might evolve..)  
or let it rot on purpose.  I'm starting to think voting for b).

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