On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Bob Network <networkjoe@hotmail.com> wrote:
Why is IPv6 broken?
You should have titled your thread, "my own personal rant about Hurricane Electric's IPv6 strategy." You may also have left out the dodgy explanation of peering policies and technicalities, since these issues have been remarkably static since about 1996. The names of the networks change, but the song remains the same. This is not a novel subject on this mailing list. In fact, there have been a number of threads discussing HE's practices lately. If you are so interested in them, I suggest you review the list archive. There are quite a few serious, unresolved technical problems with IPv6 adoption besides a few networks playing chicken with their collective customer-bases. The lack of will on the part of vendors and operators to participate in the IETF process, and make necessary and/or beneficial changes to the IPv6 standards, has left us in a situation where IPv6 implementation produces networks which are vulnerable to trivial DoS attacks and network intrusions. The lack of will on the part of access providers to insist on functioning IPv6 support on CPE and BRAS platforms has even mid-sized ISPs facing nine-figure (as in, hundred-million-dollars) expenses to forklift-upgrade their access networks and end-user equipment, at a time when IPv6 seems to be the only way to continue growing the Internet. The lack of will on the part of major transit networks, including Savvis, to deploy IPv6 capabilities to their customers, means that customers caught in multi-year contracts may have no option for native connectivity. Cogent's policy of requiring a new contract, and from what I am still being told by some European customers, new money, from customers in exchange for provisioning IPv6 on existing circuits, means a simple technical project gets caught up in the complexities of budgeting and contract execution. If you believe that the most serious problem facing IPv6 adoption is that HE / Level3 / Cogent don't carry a full table, you are living in a fantasy world. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts