[101249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Mon Dec 24 10:31:09 2007
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:28:36 GMT
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I thought we were all trying to discourage NAT in IPv6. Clearly, NAT
> solves the problem ... while introducing 1000 new ones. :-/
Clearly some have been trying to discourage NAT in IPv6
ensuring there'll be a 1000 problems if anyone tries.
> I mean, yeah, it'd be great if we could mandate /48 ... but I just can't
> see it as likely to happen.
If people are supposed to have a /48 then the allocation rules
should say that's what they will get.
It may be xmas but it's not wise to rely on the benevolence of ISPs
brandon