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i     1 # Peering Cake for IPv6 by tgtimes	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     2 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     3 The Internet Protocol is the fundamental encoding and communication	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     4 convention that permits computers to reach each other across multiple	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     5 LANs.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     6 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     7 An Protocol to allow Inter-Network communication.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     8 Andy Tanenbaum wrote a beautiful introduction about the underlying idea:	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     9 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    10         https://worldcat.org/en/title/1086268840	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    11 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    12 The part of Internet visible from a single user looks like a tree, with at	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    13 its  root the service provider. Regardless how complex the branches are,	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    14 there is usually "the gateway", implying a single one per network, to	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    15 allow traffic to "exit", implying a  single direction to go for reaching	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    16 the outter world. The routing configuration rarely changes, and is often	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    17 boiling down to "going out", implying beyond the gateway is outside..	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    18 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    19 The part of Internet visible from a service provider, however, looks like	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    20 a  mesh, a more balanced graph, with many possible gateways, many possible	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    21 "exit" directions, and no more idea of "outside".	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    22 If you pick one possible gateway picked at random, hoping them to nicely	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    23 find the correct destination for your IP packets, they may realistically	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    24 cut your connection and never ever talk to you again,	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    25 depending on how much traffic you suddenly sent (routing your IPs to	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    26 0.0.0.0). This happens frequently. Network admin mailing lists are	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    27 constantly active with many people discussing with many others.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    28 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    29 Network admins themself are usually friendly among themself, even across	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    30 concurrents, but companies do not always play nice with each other.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    31 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    32 There is a legendary dispute known by all Internet Service Provider (ISP) 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    33 netadmins: the two biggest international internet network providers,	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    34 Cogent and Hurricane Electric, are disconnected.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    35 The two major IPv6 Carriers, those giants connecting the ISP togethers	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    36 across  continents, are currently refusing to exchange IPv6 packets with	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    37 each other. This means that with IPv6, from a country connected to only	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    38 Cogent, it is not  possible to reach a country connected to only Hurricane	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    39 Electric, and the other way around.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    40 For this reason, all ISPs from all countries connections with many more 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    41 carriers for IPv6 than it is for IPv4, resulting in either lower stability	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    42 or higher cost.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    43 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    44 This strategy permits Cogent to remain competitive face to its larger 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    45 concurrents. Hurricane Electric, on the other hand, have much more	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    46 commercial advantage to perform peering with Cogent, to therefore exchange	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    47 traffic. In the diversity of attempts to get Cogent to change its mind,	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    48 Hurricane  Electric decorated a large creamy cake with a message, and	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    49 shipped the cake to the headquarters of Cogent.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    50 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    51 Here is what the message said in 2009:	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    52 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    53 Cogent (AS174) Please IPv6 peer with us XOXOX - Hurricane Electric (AS6939).	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    54 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    55         https://www.mail-archive.com/nanog@nanog.org/msg15608.html	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    56         https://live.staticflickr.com/2685/4031434206_656b2d8112_z.jpg	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    57         https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/28/ipv6_peering_squabbles/	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    58         https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2009-October/\	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    59                 014017.html	Err	bitreich.org	70
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