Re: [v6ops] discussion of transition technologies

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 22 January 2018 21:23 UTC

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To: Lee Howard <lee@asgard.org>, Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] discussion of transition technologies
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On 23/01/2018 10:07, Lee Howard wrote:
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> On 1/22/18, 3:37 PM, "v6ops on behalf of Brian E Carpenter"
> <v6ops-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> After watching this debate, I'm asking myself why we want to anything
>> other than
>> a) watch the market deciding for itself, and
> 
> We are the market. :-)
> 
> As Fred describes, a lot of market participants (myself included) are
> overwhelmed by the number of transition mechanisms, and I have heard from
> quite a few people (myself included) that I could not possibly investigate
> 26 different technologies well enough to understand the trade offs between
> them, and some therefore become paralyzed. RFC6180 "Guidelines for Using
> IPv6 Transition Mechanisms during IPv6 Deployment” is fine as far as it
> goes, but it doesn’t consider all of them, and was published before
> 464xlat and MAP.
> 
> I don’t know that we need to publish an update to RFC6180, but maybe we do.

Has RFC6180 proved useful to people? If so, update it by all means.
 
> For my own use, I get asked a lot what transition technology people should
> use. I’d like to know that my answers are good.

Understood. A decision tree would be ideal. I'm just not sure that this
is the ideal place to develop it.

    Brian

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> Lee 
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>> b) formally deprecate anything we decide is broken.
>>
>>   Brian
>> On 23/01/2018 09:23, Fred Baker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 22, 2018, at 11:17 AM, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
>>>> What's the purpose of what you are trying to do?
>>>
>>> This started out as a question among the chairs, triggered in part by
>>> an academic article that I can't share because it's not public yet. It
>>> lists 26 different transition mechanisms and tries to make
>>> recommendations, based in large part of recommendations we have made.
>>> The question started out as "can we narrow that to one such mechanism?
>>> Which ones are actually in use?" Now see the spreadsheet Lee shared,
>>> which comes from different data.
>>>
>>> It sounds like Ole's data on 6rd needs to get reflected in Lee's
>>> spreadsheet.
>>>
>>> After quite a bit of discussion, we think we had pretty much
>>> re-invented RFC 6180. The discussion isn't over, but I suspect we're
>>> close. So Lee asked for opinions from you guys.
>>>
>>> And BTW, I suspect that dslite is a little long in the tooth for the
>>> same reason. The theory with both 6rd and dslite was/is that once there
>>> is a native path from here to there, even if the dslite configuration is
>>> still in the network it's unlikely to be used. That might be naive :-)
>>>
>>> The big question among the chairs is "what is the real case for
>>> translation?" We see it in a variety of places, basically creating a way
>>> for IPv6-only devices or networks to talk with IPv4-only devices or
>>> networks, but wondering if there is a better way to proceed. My personal
>>> take is "it is what it is, no worse than IPv4/IPv4 translation" - not
>>> arguing for it, but considering it a fact of life until people become
>>> motivated to replace it with native systems and connectivity. YMMV.
>>>
>>>
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