[131216] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Thu Oct 21 13:39:05 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:38:39 -0700
In-Reply-To: <3D61CC68-0D37-4C59-BC37-93069EDBDFA3@delong.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>,
"Jens Link" <lists@quux.de>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong=20
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:12 AM
> To: Jens Link
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
>=20
>=20
> On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:59 AM, Jens Link wrote:
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> > Owen DeLong writes:
> >
> >> All well and good until some of their customers are on IPv6...
> >> Then what?
> >
> > Someone will build an appliance to deal with this problem. ;-)
> >
> And I estimate that the user experience through such appliances will
> be poor or worse, driving their former customers to their competitors
> that implemented native IPv6.
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> Owen
>=20
And it will be an expensive operation when someone is pushing multiple
gigabits or tens of gigabits of traffic. NAT is probably one of the more
expensive operations in a large network facing the Internet that handles
a lot of traffic.
