Re: Interested in input on tunnels as an IPv6 transition technology

[TR Shaw <tshaw () oitc com>]

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au> wrote:
> > Hullo all.
> >
> > I'm working on a talk, and would be interested to know what people think
> > is good about tunnels as an IPv6 transition technology, and what people
> > think is bad about tunnels.
> >
> > It would probably be best to let me know off-list :-) but I'm happy to
> > summarise back to the list. Any references you have to useful papers,
> > articles, discussions etc would also be appreciated.
> >
> > I'm looking for both general problems and advantages, but also
> > advantages and disadvantages specific to particular tunnel types. It
> > would also be helpful to know from what perspective particular things
> > are good or bad, in so far as it isn't obvious. A carrier has a
> > different perspective than, say, a home user, who will have a different
> > perspective again to an enterprise user.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for your input.

All I can say is that if it wasn't for HE tunnels I would be SOL. No provider here in east central Florida can even 
speak IPv6.  Brighthouse is clueless. ATT told me maybe 2012 or 2013!  So I tunnel to HE's POP in Miami.  With this I 
can test and become dual stack operational. Yes, it is not as good as a native connection but in my position its the 
only game in town.

Tom