Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

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On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Michel Py wrote:

> According to this:
> http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/france-is-famous-for-fine-wine-cheese-and-now-
> ipv6/
> and some more recent direct talks in French, about half of worldwide
> IPv6 traffic is French.
> 
> The bulk of it comes from a single ISP (Free, AS12322) and their IPv6 is
> 6RD (RFC5569, RFC5969), a variant of 6to4. Given the constant references
> in 6RD to 6to4, I will point out that making 6to4 historic somehow
> reduces the likeliness of another extremely successful ISP
> implementation based on it.

That's doesn't follow. 6rd borrows a mechanism used in 6to4, 6rd has no dependance on host 6to4 implementations or the 6to4 any-cast address.

> Although Google (in
> http://www.pam2010.ethz.ch/papers/full-length/15.pdf) and other
> measurements classify AS12322's traffic as native, it is 6RD behind the
> scenes.
> 
> If the argument is that IPv6 "native" should be the preferred solution
> over "tunneled", it does not hold water. If you were to remove 6to4 and
> 6RD from the picture, that would set us back 10 years ago in terms of
> IPv6 adoption.
> 
> Michel.
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