Re: v6 Avian Carriers?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:

> On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:41 11AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote:
>
> > I was wondering which April 1st this would happen on.   Now I know.  So if a v6 carrier swallows a v4 datagram does 
> > that count as packet loss or tunneling?
> >
> > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/
>
> I was disappointed in this RFC -- Section 3.1 didn't include the proper discussion of the difference between African 
> and European avian carriers, and we know what happens if that question is asked at the wrong time.
> >
>
>
>               --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
That applies to swallows. I'm not sure pidgeons pose the same issue. I think in general, swallows
provide poor platforms for avian transport of IP datagrams.


Owen