On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:41 11AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote: > >> I was wondering which April 1st this would happen on. Now I know. So if a >> v6 carrier swallows a v4 datagram does that count as packet loss or >> tunneling? >> >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/ >> > > I was disappointed in this RFC -- Section 3.1 didn't include the proper > discussion of the difference between African and European avian carriers, and > we know what happens if that question is asked at the wrong time. >> > > > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb > > > > > That applies to swallows. I'm not sure pidgeons pose the same issue. I think in general, swallows provide poor platforms for avian transport of IP datagrams.
Owen
