On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Keith Moore <[email protected]>wrote:

> Why are you trying to make life harder for developers of IPv6 applications?
>  There's no reason at all that an application developer should have to set
> up a special-purpose network just to test an IPv6 application.
>

No, we're trying to make their lives easier, by suggesting they use
something that actually *works*.


> Realistic testing of applications needs to be done on real networks, or a
> least an approximation to real networks.  Testing IPv6 using 6to4 over
> public IPv4 obviously isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot more realistic
> than setting up a lab network and confining one's testing to that.
>

So use a tunnel broker.


> You're missing something.   I can connect directly from my mobile laptop to
> a machine in my home network using 6to4.
>

Really? From where? On none of the networks my laptop connects to do I get a
public IPv4 address. Some of them do give me have native IPv6 or
manually-tunneled IPv6 though.

We can disagree about the meaning of the word "widespread", but the
> practical fact is that you can't expect people to give up something that
> works for them until you can provide them something that works better *for
> them.  "Available to 50% of Internet service customers" is equivalent to a
> very small percent probability of native connectivity being able to replace
> 6to4 connectivity in a scenario where 6to4 is currently working.  And the
> more hosts involved, the smaller that probability is. *
>

You cannot claim that 6to4 is "working" when there is data that shows that
it has a 20% failure rate. If we had that sort of connectivity in IPv4, we
wouldn't have an Internet.


> Existing "content providers" are not going to drive adoption of IPv6.
> They're going to follow it.
>

Nope. Look at World IPv6 day. If you look at the list of participaints, I'd
say that probably more than 10% of Internet content, either by bits or by
query volume, is ready for IPv6 now. Our data shows that access is at 0.3%.
So you could say that in fact content *is* driving adoption of IPv6. We just
need to get unreliable tunneled connectivity out of the way so we can turn
it on for real.


>  Web and email will be the last applications to migrate.
>

Um, no. See above.

> WEG> Well, it'd be more harmful if there weren't alternatives.
>
>
> There aren't any good ones.  Teredo and configured tunnels are worse in
> many ways; though they each have their use cases.
>

Actually, configured tunnels are much better. They have a much lower failure
rate and lower latency. We published data that shows the latency impact in
our PAM 2009 paper.

Regards,
Lorenzo
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