Hi,

Over the years operational experience has revealed that the 6to4
protocol suffers from so severe operational problems that it simply
cannot be fixed. Therefore, the IETF recently decided to deprecate 6to4:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

The document is approved for publication by the IESG and is just
awaiting the finishing editorial touches by the RFC Editor.

The important stuff is in section 5:

   It is NOT RECOMMENDED to include the anycast 6to4 transition
   mechanism in new implementations.  If included in any
   implementations, the anycast 6to4 mechanism MUST be disabled by
   default.

   In host implementations, unicast 6to4 MUST also be disabled by
   default.  All hosts using 6to4 MUST support the IPv6 address
   selection policy described in [RFC6724].

   In router implementations, 6to4 MUST be disabled by default.  In
   particular, enabling IPv6 forwarding on a device MUST NOT
   automatically enable 6to4.

ConnMan does currently automatically enable 6to4, so will violate this
new requirement. I'm thinking that the easiest way to deal with that is
to simply rip out the 6to4 code completely, since the operational
problems with 6to4 (see RFC 6343) makes it such that the end users are
far better off by staying IPv4-only than "dual-stacked" with 6to4. But I
thought I'd ask before sending such a patch. The alternative would be
to keep the code, but disable it by default. Any thoughts?

Tore
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