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Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Sat Mar 04 11:44:11 2006

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:59:18 +0100
Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 3 mar 2006, at 04.13, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 
> > I would be surprised if Shim6 going into actual deployed boxes was  
> > any faster.  So, if Shim6 was finalized today, which it won't be,  
> > in 2010 we might have 70% deployment and in 2012 we might have 90%  
> > deployment.
> 
> OTOH Teredo, which isn't even a standard is in more or less all  
> Windows XP boxes....
> 
Teredo is described in RFC 4380; it's a Proposed Standard.

I should note that Microsoft really believes in IPv6.  I wonder what
that means for its future....