Are there any documents that give adoption instructions for
what are expected to be common scenarios? These would be
step-by-step cookbooks, with explanations for when they apply
and when they don't?
There are lots and lots of documents in lots and lots of places. Many of
them were written years ago and include deprecated stuff, such as 6bone.
They are written from numerous points of view, i.e. enterprise, academic
campus, Research & Education Network, European, etc.
Given the adoption hurdles IPv6 has been showing, then
efforts to both make it easy and publicize/document that it's
easy could be helpful.
Yes. Given that the IPv4 exhaustion date is now within the planning
horizon of ISPs, ARIN has set up a wiki at http://www.getipv6.info to
document how to use IPv6. Since ARIN's audience is ISPs, this is taking
the ISP point of view to the problem.
For instance, if you are an end user, 6to4 is something that you
configure to dip your toes in IPV6 and see how it works without touching
existing IPv4 infrastructure. But for an ISP, 6to4 is a relay service
that you configure in several routers to ensure that an end user's early
experience with IPv6 is more positive and less likely to include high
hop count, and high latency caused by trombone-shaped tunneling
architecture.
IMHO the type of document that Dave is talking about requires many
authors. A wiki is well-suited to creating such documents. But it needs
contributors who know something about IPv6 who will write up some of
this cookbook material, or dust off old papers and presentations and
copy the key bits, with corrections, into the wiki.
--Michael Dillon
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