been responsible for the loss of many wooden hulls. Christian Huitema, in the original draft, noted that the shipworm "only survives in relatively clean and unpolluted water; its recent comeback in several Northern American harbors is a testimony to their newly retrieved cleanliness. The Shipworm service should, in turn, contributes to a newly retrieved transparency of the Internet." To avoid confusion with computer worms, Huitema later changed the protocol's name from Shipworm to Teredo, after the genus name of the shipworm Teredo navalis. References External links Teredo Overview on Microsoft TechNet Current anycast Teredo BGP routes Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs). RFC 4380, C. Huitema. February 2006. JavaScript Teredo-IP address calculator Internet architecture IPv6 transition technologies Tunneling protocols