On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Keith Moore wrote:

> On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Tony Hain wrote:
>> 
>>> Keith is correct, and the further issue is that the *-only-* reason the
>>> 'poorly managed' relays are in the path is that the content providers are
>>> refusing to deploy the matching 6to4 router that would take a direct
>>> connection from the customer. 
>>> 
>>> 6to4 direct between the content and consumer is still an 'unmanaged' tunnel
>>> which takes exactly the same path as IPv4 would, so the 'badness' is not due
>>> to managed vs. not.
>> 
>> And the breakage still exists even if you do that.
> 
> do "what"?

deploy your own relay, as observed by geoff and others that does not 
rehabilitate (by which I mean make it usable for those customers) 6to4.

> As I understand it, the breakage mostly happens when the traffic doesn't  
> take exactly the same path as IPv4 would, but rather when the traffic moves 
> between the IPv4 world and the IPv6 world (or vice versa) via a relay router 
> that's advertising a route to a network that it can't actually get traffic to.
> 
> Though of course there are other sources of breakage:  ISPs that filter 
> protocol 41 (thus violating the "best effort" model); and NATs, including 
> LSNs.  Neither of these is 6to4's fault.

it results in a failure from the vantage point of the customer. you're 
splitting hairs pretty fine if you not willing to ascribe that to 6to4.

>  The IPv4 network is supposed to make a best effort to convey traffic from 
> source to destination, regardless of protocol type, without altering it other 
> than the TTL field.   If ISPs break 6to4 traffic by filtering protocol 41, 
> that's clearly their fault.  Likewise, if ISPs break 6to4 traffic by imposing 
> NAT on their customers, that's also quite clearly their fault.  It's not like 
> we haven't known FOR TWENTY YEARS NOW (remember Kobe?) that the Internet was 
> running out of addresses and had a standardized replacement in place FOR OVER 
> FIFTEEN YEARS.
> 
> If an ISP that has aggressively deployed IPv6 wants to whine about 6to4 
> support issues, I guess they have a legitimate gripe.
> 
> Keith
> 

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