[112004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Feb 18 09:23:42 2009
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:23:34 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <65EE9B0D-70C3-4953-A17B-1D2F3F0DEE7F@daork.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Nathan Ward wrote:
> Sort of - except it is only for IPv6 "clients" to connect to named IPv4
> "servers". NAT-PT allowed for the opposite direction, IPv4 "clients"
> connecting to IPv6 "servers" - NAT64 does not.
>
Which is a serious mistake in my opinion. Corporate world will not or
can not shift out of IPv4 for many years. They will use firewalls to
handle conversions (4 inside, 6 outside). The legacy software that runs
within corporations always astounds me, but it is what it is. I honestly
doubt that a single vendor out there cares one lick about the IETF, and
they will provide whatever their customers demand; or lose the customer.
-Jack
