[6bone] pTLA for Teredo testing - review closes 7 August 2002

[Michael Richardson]

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Let me just say that I do not think that we should consider Teredo an
"experiment". So, the questions that Thomas properly raises ("when is the
experiment over? how do we know if it succeeded?")

It will continue to be used as long as there are IPv4 NATs out there that do
not offer any IPv6 service. Christian, 2007? I doubt it.

Do not think that this is the lifecycle of technology the first world - I
predict that the evil boxes that cause this problem will be rescued from
dumpsters here and will show up in huts in the middle of the sub-Sahara
(cf. _The Gods must be crazy_ s/coke bottle/IPv4 NAT/). 

Teredo is as important as 6to4, perhaps more so. I had more or less assumed
that it would be the 2003:: prefix or something. I believe that this is a
worthwhile thing to do with 1/65536s of our address space. 

I understand the concerns about the technology - I hope that they can be
fixed. {I personally can not imagine ever being in such a place where I would
be able to effectively use an anycast address to reach a Teredo relay, while
being unable to do either at least 6to4, or IPv6 natively. }

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