I agree with Brian. If a SP wants to provide a managed 6to4 service, 6rd is
the way to go. SPs shouldn't try to solve the broken 6to4 problem by
injecting v4 information to the global v6 routing table.

Yiu

On 5/28/10 6:29 AM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote:

>>       6to4 prefixes more specific than 2002::/16 are allowed to be
>>       propagated in native IPv6 routing, as long as the more specific
>>       matchs exactly the mapped most aggregated IPv4 route originated by
>>       the same AS.
> 
> This is a really, really bad idea, for the reason given in RFC3056:
> 
>       6to4 prefixes more specific than 2002::/16 must not be propagated
>       in native IPv6 routing, to prevent pollution of the IPv6 routing
>       table by elements of the IPv4 routing table.
> 
> That is a much more important issue than the fact that 6to4 doesn't work
> well for users whose ISPs haven't deployed a 6to4 relay (and announced
> 2002::/16
> locally). ISPs do need to pay attention to filtering rules for 2002::/16
> announcements.
> 
>    Brian
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