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





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