[6bone] Reserved ASN 64702, 6to4, 2 ghosts, other oddities andstill no working contacts...

[Jeroen Massar]

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William Caban [mailto:william@hpcf.upr.edu] wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 10:30, Bill Manning wrote:
> > 	bing!  the 3ffe:: entries are for experimental services -only-
> > 	while the 2001:: will eventually be production services.
> > 	and the test are -not- primarly about connectivity.
> 
> Last time I checked on this 3ffe:: was not "tagged" as for "experimental
> services only". I have asked this to people working with IPv6 and
> haven't received any reply  confirming it, only replies 
> staying that it hasn't been decided.
> 
> Is it now? Please let me know.
> 
> (I will hate to do a deployment of 3ffe:: and 2001:: networks and then
> after some time tell the users sorry we are not routing 3ffe:: anymore
> since it was experimental only.  I prefer telling them from the very
> first time.)

6bone is "IPv6 Testing"*, so it can be production quality, but it can also break.
But I think that mostly depends on the people using the space and what
they are using the space for, some use it to run 'production'.

Also see the following, as 6bone *will* go away per 2006/6/6 :)
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-04.txt
So, yes, you will have to tell the users that you are not routing 3ffe::/16 anymore.

But nothing prohibits one to use RIR space as experimental btw
which is why I wondered why 2 prefixes are being used by the I root.

Greets,
 Jeroen

* = http://www.6bone.net/about_6bone.html
"The 6bone is an IPv6 Testbed that is an outgrowth of the IETF IPng project that created the IPv6 protocols intended to eventually replace the current Internet network layer protocols known as IPv4."
"The 6bone operates under the IPv6 Testing Address Allocation (see  RFC 2471)."

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