On 11/8/10 8:54 PM, Alain Durand wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2010, at 5:53 AM, Ole Troan wrote:
> > 2) my concern with using 6rd for this purpose is that while automatic 
> > tunneling by encoding the tunnel end point in the payload address is 
> > convenient. offering a 'sensible' sized IPv6 prefix to end users is going 
> > to be problematic. note this is purely a concern from a deployment 
> > perspective. I have no doubt that you can _use_ 6rd this way. just because 
> > we _can_, _should_ we?
> > can you give some examples of how you deliver e.g. /56 or /64 to end users, 
> > using gi-6rd? (without expecting the SP to have a /16 of v6 space 
> > obviously).
>
> This is a critical issue.
I certainly could be, depending on how the math works out in terms of v4
aggregates and endpoints you are supporting. Aside of breaking the /64
barrier, I can imagine it not working out well in the majority of cases.

6rd's most significant strength is when it is in support of a very large
number of sites. After the 6, 7 or 8 figure range in terms of number of
sites 6rd is enabling, the advantages vs. stateful methods become quite
apparent.

Authors, for this use-case, how many gateways are we expecting to need
to support?

- Mark

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