Havard Eidnes wrote: > <counter-rant> > > All this monomanic ISP-bashing needs to stop now, if IPv6 is ever > to take off in any manner. > > The claim that RH0 is "just a tool" and that there is no > "amplification" > is narrow-sighted at best, since I understood from what has been > discussed here that it can indeed cause excessive bandwith utilization > along a path, and is therefore a much too useful tool in a miscreant's > hand to let loose on the unsuspecting masses.
So fix it by restricting the number of waypoints. Killing it only prevents valid uses. > > Also, please do note, one man's tool to "select which ISP to use" can > easily be viewed by the ISPs as a tool for theft of service, inducing > routers to carry packets between customers A and B where neither > customer has any direct or indirect customer/provider relationship > with the providers of the path which is being used. Why would any > reasonable ISP tolerate such (potential) behaviour? > > </counter-rant> There is no requirement that an ISP accept a packet with RH0 from a non-customer, so this claim of theft is just more FUD feeding the hysteria. Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
