Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Mark Smith i...@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org wrote: I don't know if it is intentional, however if I use Google's public 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 resolvers, and prefer 6to4 over native IPv4 (via /etc/gai.conf under Linux/glibc), it seems that the

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: That said, I would argue that most or all 6to4 traffic could just as well use IPv4, since both parties to the communication obviously have access to a public IPv4 address. What is the advantage of using 6to4 over

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: ... about 80% of the time. Or 99.999% of the time once you get it setup. The problem isn't 6to4, it's *automatic* 6to4. No, because you often end up being dependent on the whims of BGP and third-party relays for your

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:43:23 -0700 Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: ... about 80% of the time. Or 99.999% of the time once you get it setup. The problem isn't 6to4, it's *automatic* 6to4. No, because you

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:15:17PM +0930, Mark Smith wrote: I have a vested interest in anycast 6to4 continuing to exist, This actually brings up a good argument: are you going to pay for us to run our 6to4 relay? not that the cost of it is high, but there is cost to it - to make sure

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Gert, On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:51:26 +0200 Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:15:17PM +0930, Mark Smith wrote: I have a vested interest in anycast 6to4 continuing to exist, This actually brings up a good argument: are you going to pay for us to run

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:30 AM, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: Very few of the people using 6to4 in this way will show up in Google's user behavior analysis, of course, because Google doesn't run its own 6to4 return-path relay as I-D.ietf-v6ops-6to4-advisory recommends. We would not

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Erik Kline
The youtube folks made the decision to leave the video-serving hostnames available in blacklist-mode, meaning only very broken networks won't get s. This is being watched, and could easily change back. The exact policy for blacklisting has yet to be fully formalized. But re: 6to4 in this

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:59:47 -0700 Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:30 AM, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: Very few of the people using 6to4 in this way will show up in Google's user behavior analysis, of course, because Google doesn't run its own

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:05:33 -0700 Erik Kline e...@google.com wrote: The youtube folks made the decision to leave the video-serving hostnames available in blacklist-mode, meaning only very broken networks won't get s. This is being watched, and could easily change back. The exact

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: That said, I would argue that most or all 6to4 traffic could just as well use IPv4, since both parties to the communication obviously have access to a public IPv4 address. What is the advantage of using 6to4 over IPv4 that makes it worth

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 15, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: That said, I would argue that most or all 6to4 traffic could just as well use IPv4, since both parties to the communication obviously have access to a

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message BANLkTi=ggay2u0sx54hnv7bz7qdgrajz9h+8rwhmwkjk+9s...@mail.gmail.com , Lorenzo Colitti writes: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrot e: That said, I would argue that most or all 6to4 traffic could just as well use IPv4, since both parties to

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
On 14 Jun 2011, at 18:59, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:30 AM, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: Very few of the people using 6to4 in this way will show up in Google's user behavior analysis, of course, because Google doesn't run its own 6to4 return-path relay as

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-14 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.eduwrote: Mac OS 10.6.4, which uses 6to4 by default, has a ~50x greater failure rate when connecting to dual-stack servers than Mac OS 10.6.5 - and the only change is to not use 6to4 by default. ... So

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-14 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:15 AM, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: I don't want anybody to be misled by this statement. I think what Lorenzo meant to say is that Mac OS X 10.6.4 and earlier doesn't implement the policy table in I-D.ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise, which prefers IPv4 source

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-14 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 10, 2011, at 09:38 , Lorenzo Colitti wrote: I fundamentally disagree. I really don't think that 6to4 is used by lots of people for applications that wouldn't just use (more reliable) IPv4 if 6to4 wasn't there. The same is often said about IPv6 in general. That's not meant to be

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: Indeed, that is one of its main virtues. 6to4 decouples application deployment of v6 from network deployment of v6, and helps reduce the chicken or egg problem. No, it does not - in fact, it is the opposite.

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: 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.

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: Again, 40-something percent of the IPv6 traffic that is observed on the net today uses 6to4. Please point at the data behind that assertion. In many cases in the past, such assertions have comes from networks that do

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: So the existence of 6to4 is in itself a significant barrier for IPv6 deployment for server operators and content providers. non sequitur. Existing server operators and content providers can easily provide 6to4

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: I suppose we should just tunnel the whole IPv6 network over IPv4 + HTTP then. Seriously, the argument that 6to4 should be trashed because ISPs are blocking tunnels has the flavor of don't solve the problem, but

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: In a similar way as Geoff measured 6to4 - looking at SYNs. I suspect that the answer will be that much fewer users have configured tunnels than 6to4, and that the failure rate is much lower. Er, I'm

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com Mac OS 10.6.4, which uses 6to4 by default, has a ~50x greater failure rate when connecting to dual-stack servers than Mac OS 10.6.5 - and the only change is to not use 6to4 by default. ... So the existence of 6to4 is in itself

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: We have data that clearly shows that Mac OS 10.6.4, which uses 6to4 by default... I don't want anybody to be misled by this statement. I think what Lorenzo meant to say is that Mac OS X 10.6.4 and earlier doesn't implement the policy

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Richardson
Lorenzo == Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com writes: 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.

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: This all reminds of how killing the mbone killed multicast. Getting grumpy email from van because I sourced more than 128Kb/s killed the mbone, it was a toy. joel___ Ietf mailing list

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Templin, Fred L
You cannot expect something to be configured correctly if it is simply turned on without a) being managed by someone or b) detection mechanisms to see if it's working. Sadly, anycasted 6to4 meets neither of these conditions. ISATAP meets both of these conditions:

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-10 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Randy Presuhn wrote: Your argument seems to be that the peculiar operational characteristics of 6to4 should give it additional immunity to being declared historic. I don't find that argument persuasive. That's not my argument. My argument is that declaring

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-10 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 10, 2011, at 1:15 PM, james woodyatt wrote: On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: We have data that clearly shows that Mac OS 10.6.4, which uses 6to4 by default... I don't want anybody to be misled by this statement. I think what Lorenzo meant to say is that Mac

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-10 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:20 , Keith Moore wrote: Declaring 6to4 Historic certainly won't prevent people from implementing it. But the proposed action is clearly intended to discourage implementation of 6to4. It says so explicitly. Of course some vendors will ignore it, but some vendors

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 8, 2011, at 7:20 PM, james woodyatt wrote: On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Dmitry Anipko wrote: [...] And it unclear to me why IETF would want to take away a _transition_ technique from people for whom it is working... Let's be very clear. This proposed RFC would not take away the

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Gunter Van de Velde (gvandeve) wrote: Its 'rough' consensus... I don't wanna rat-hole here, but imho send the draft onwards for publication asap please. I'm not even sure it's rough consensus within the v6ops group. Again, haven't read all of the messages, but

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Gunter Van de Velde (gvandeve) wrote: Its 'rough' consensus... I don't wanna rat-hole here, but imho send the draft onwards for publication asap please. I'm not even sure it's rough consensus within the v6ops

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Gunter Van de Velde (gvandeve) wrote: Its 'rough' consensus... I don't wanna rat-hole here, but imho send the draft onwards for publication asap please. I'm not even sure it's rough

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Philip Homburg wrote: In your letter dated Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:37:56 -0400 you wrote: I have also seen those claims in v6ops email (haven't caught up with all of it , but have seen a few messages). I don't buy the argument. Clearly the inten t of this draft

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: If you disagree the wg chairs conclusions as far as the wg process outcome and the document shepherds report which can you can find here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic/history/ Then you should consider

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I will claim our goal is native IPv6 along IPv4, and in the long run, IPv6 only. We don't need more tunneling of IPv6 over IPv4, that was okay 10years ago, maybe even 5 or 3 years ago. Now it is time to actual do the right thing and say

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Christian Huitema
Arguably, transitions technologies like 6to4 and Teredo have already achieved their purpose. My goal at the time, more than 10 years ago, was to break the chicken and egg deadlock between application developers and network administrators. That's why I spent such energy on making 6to4 easy to

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Keith Moore wrote: - the criteria for standards track actions (which this is, despite the document being labeled as Informational) requires both rough consensus and technical soundness. Informational status was at the behest of the iesg, we have been advised

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com Nor do I understand why, in an organization that is supposedly about building consensus, there's such a demand for a divisive ... action. Hey, that's been the IPv6 world since day 1. How many leading technical voices in the community

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread George, Wesley
From: Keith Moore [mailto:mo...@network-heretics.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 6:48 PM To: George, Wesley Cc: ietf@ietf.org; v6...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Dmitry Anipko
I don't intend to re-spin the discussion that took place in the WG, but I'd like to say I do agree with the concerns raised in the LC threads by Keith and others. If there are 6to4 connectivity issues for some 6to4 clients, in my opinion, those issues would be sufficiently mitigated by RFC

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:20:44PM -0700, james woodyatt wrote: Publish it. Publish it now. Let its authors be free to pursue more useful ends than defending it. Well said. +1 Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- did you enable IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Gunter Van de Velde (gvandeve)
; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC On Jun 8, 2011, at 7:20 PM, james woodyatt wrote: On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Dmitry Anipko wrote

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:05:29AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: The best way to not rat-hole is just to drop the proposed action. One voice doesn't make it consensus to drop. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- did you enable IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:37:56 -0400 you wrote: I have also seen those claims in v6ops email (haven't caught up with all of it , but have seen a few messages). I don't buy the argument. Clearly the inten t of this draft and protocol action are to discourage use of 6to4,

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Philip, On 2011-06-10 03:18, Philip Homburg wrote: ... I think this is likely to happen anyway. In all discussions it has been come clear that 6to4 has nothing to offer for ordinary users, In all fairness, that depends on your definition of ordinary. Where I differ from Keith is that I don't

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-09 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Rémi Després remi.desp...@free.fr To: Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:11 AM Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt ... I'm pretty sure Noel was being scarcastic. There's clear

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt(Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: I don't have a problem with the idea that an Informational document can describe the consequences of moving something to Historic. I have a serious problem with the idea that a standards-track document can be moved off of the standards

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-09 Thread TJ
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 13:30, Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.comwrote: Hi - From: Rémi Després remi.desp...@free.fr To: Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:11 AM Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: Arguably, transitions technologies like 6to4 and Teredo have already achieved their purpose. My goal at the time, more than 10 years ago, was to break the chicken and egg deadlock between application developers and network

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-09 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: TJ trej...@gmail.com To: Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt ... The point is that the historic declaration can be a statement about how

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: Indeed, that is one of its main virtues. 6to4 decouples application deployment of v6 from network deployment of v6, and helps reduce the chicken or egg

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Keith Moore wrote: Clearly the intent of this draft and protocol action are to discourage use of 6to4, particularly in new implementations. You can't discourage use of 6to4 in new implementations without harming people who are already using it and depending

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: So the existence of 6to4 is in itself a significant barrier for IPv6 deployment for server operators and content providers. non sequitur. Existing server

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: I suppose we should just tunnel the whole IPv6 network over IPv4 + HTTP then. Seriously, the argument that 6to4 should be trashed because ISPs are blocking

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Lorenzo, On 2011-06-10 06:20, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: So the existence of 6to4 is in itself a significant barrier for IPv6 deployment for server operators and content providers. non sequitur. Existing

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Tim Chown
I agree the draft should be progressed, so add another +1 to the 'just ship it' people. On 9 Jun 2011, at 18:39, Keith Moore wrote: If pain associated with 6to4 provides an additional incentive for ISPs to deploy native v6, and for users to use native v6 when it becomes available, that's a

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Randy Presuhn wrote: I'm pretty sure Noel was being scarcastic. There's clear precedent in the analogous case where RFC 1227 was declared historic, despite its widespread use for that particular application at the time. RFC 1227 specified an experimental

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-09 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com To: Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt ... Consider, then, RFC 1157. It was, quite rightly

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 000901cc270d$430ec000$6801a8c0@oemcomputer, Randy Presuhn writes : We can't compel people to continue supporting it any more than we can make them stop. At most, we can give them (hopefully convincing) reasons to change. If the SNMP experience shows anything, it shows that even

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-09 Thread Martin Rex
Mark Andrews wrote: In message Randy Presuhn writes: We can't compel people to continue supporting it any more than we can make them stop. At most, we can give them (hopefully convincing) reasons to change. If the SNMP experience shows anything, it shows that even that isn't enough.

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-08 Thread Martin Rex
I'm sorry, I seem to have goofed up during mail editing... I meant to write that cassifying 6to4 as historic is INappropriate use of the IETF process in the last sentence. -Martin Martin Rex wrote: George, Wesley wrote: It's time to remove the stabilisers on the IPv6 bicycle. This

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-08 Thread George, Wesley
From: Keith Moore [mailto:mo...@network-heretics.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:21 AM To: George, Wesley Cc: ietf@ietf.org; v6...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-08 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Martin Rex m...@sap.com Classification of 6to4 as historic is [in]appropriate use of the IETF process, because it would be a political .. statement. Well, we've never done _that_ before, have we? Wouldn't want to set an unfortunate precedent. Noel

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-08 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Martin Rex m...@sap.com Classification of 6to4 as historic is [in]appropriate use of the IETF process, because it would be a political .. statement. Well, we've never done _that_ before, have we? Wouldn't want to set an unfortunate

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-06-09 04:17, james woodyatt wrote: On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Martin Rex m...@sap.com Classification of 6to4 as historic is [in]appropriate use of the IETF process, because it would be a political .. statement. Well, we've never done _that_ before, have we?

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-08 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: james woodyatt j...@apple.com To: ietf@ietf.org Cc: v6...@ietf.org Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Martin Rex m...@sap.com Classification

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-08 Thread Martin Rex
Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Martin Rex m...@sap.com Classification of 6to4 as historic is [in]appropriate use of the IETF process, because it would be a political .. statement. Well, we've never done _that_ before, have we? Wouldn't want to set an unfortunate precedent. I'm much more

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:33 AM, TJ wrote: Less than 1% of the IPv6 traffic reaching us is 6to4. Unless you provide IPv6 only sites, you should see very little ... that is part of the point :). snip It's time to remove the stabilisers on the IPv6 bicycle. I agree, but get me native

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-08 Thread Tim Chown
On 8 Jun 2011, at 21:19, Keith Moore wrote: Nor, bluntly, is it about a few big content providers or whomever else you want to label as important. The internet is a hugely diverse place, and you don't get to dismiss the concerns of people whom you want to label as red herrings. Again,

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-08 Thread james woodyatt
On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Dmitry Anipko wrote: [...] And it unclear to me why IETF would want to take away a _transition_ technique from people for whom it is working... Let's be very clear. This proposed RFC would not take away the 6to4 transition mechanism. The working group

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-08 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 8, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Tim Chown wrote: On 8 Jun 2011, at 21:19, Keith Moore wrote: Nor, bluntly, is it about a few big content providers or whomever else you want to label as important. The internet is a hugely diverse place, and you don't get to dismiss the concerns of people whom

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread Tim Chown
On 7 Jun 2011, at 07:33, Gert Doering wrote: Do we really need to go through all this again? As long as there is no Internet Overlord that can command people to a) put up relays everywhere and b) ensure that these relays are working, 6to4 as a general mechanism for attachment to the

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread TJ
Less than 1% of the IPv6 traffic reaching us is 6to4. Unless you provide IPv6 only sites, you should see very little ... that is part of the point :). snip It's time to remove the stabilisers on the IPv6 bicycle. I agree, but get me native everywhere before taking away one connection

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread TJ
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:56, George, Wesley wesley.geo...@twcable.comwrote: From: v6ops-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:v6ops-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of TJ Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 7:33 AM To: Tim Chown Cc: v6...@ietf.org WG; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread Keith Moore
, 2011 1:22 PM To: ietf@ietf.org Cc: v6...@ietf.org; IETF-Announce Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC 6to4 still has many valid use cases

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:41:49PM -0400, TJ wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 13:22, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: I strongly object to the proposed reclassification of these documents as Historic. *snipped lots of great thoughts/comments, solely for brevity* Agreed

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread George, Wesley
From: v6ops-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:v6ops-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of TJ Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 7:33 AM To: Tim Chown Cc: v6...@ietf.org WG; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Jun 7, 2011 12:16 AM, Tim Chown t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: On 7 Jun 2011, at 07:33, Gert Doering wrote: Do we really need to go through all this again? As long as there is no Internet Overlord that can command people to a) put up relays everywhere and b) ensure that these relays

RE: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread George, Wesley
-Announce Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC 6to4 still has many valid use cases, and there is not a suitable replacement for it that has been deployed

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4 to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
After a fair amount of thought, I have decided that I support this document without reservation. I support the recommendation that RFC 3056/3068 support should be off by default in CPEs; the reasons for this are clear enough in my companion draft. Specifically, I support the choice of SHOULD NOT

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-07 Thread Martin Rex
George, Wesley wrote: It's time to remove the stabilisers on the IPv6 bicycle. This takes nothing away. It's not as if the day that this draft gets published as an RFC, 6to4 stops working. In my personal perception, the historic status used to be a technical characterization to indicate

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread Keith Moore
On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:27 PM, George, Wesley wrote: From: Keith Moore [mailto:mo...@network-heretics.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:21 AM To: George, Wesley Cc: ietf@ietf.org; v6...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move