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RFC 6556
Title: Testing Eyeball Happiness
Author: F. Baker
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: April 2012
Mailbox: fred@cisco.com
Pages: 10
Characters: 23727
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-baker-bmwg-testing-eyeball-happiness-05.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6556.txt
The amount of time it takes to establish a session using common
transport APIs in dual-stack networks and networks with filtering
such as proposed in BCP 38 is a barrier to IPv6 deployment. This
note describes a test that can be used to determine whether an
application can reliably establish sessions quickly in a complex
environment such as dual-stack (IPv4+IPv6) deployment or IPv6
deployment with multiple prefixes and upstream ingress filtering.
This test is not a test of a specific algorithm, but of the external
behavior of the system as a black box. Any algorithm that has the
intended external behavior will be accepted by it. This document is
not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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