[141407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 8 03:10:25 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinP=TbK2Yu1G3kv5STYGBOcvtpCrQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:09:16 -0700
To: Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Martin Millnert wrote:
> Owen,
>=20
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>> LSN is required when access providers come across the following two
>> combined constraints:
>>=20
>> 1. No more IPv4 addresses to give to customers.
>> 2. No ability to deploy those customers on IPv6.
>=20
> 2 has little bearing on need of LSN to access v4. Insufficient amount
> of IPv4 addresses =3D> LSN required.
>=20
> Regards,
> Martin
No, if you have the option of deploying the customers on IPv6, you don't
need LSN.
The problem is that until the vast majority of content is dual-stack, =
you can't
deploy customers on IPv6 without IPv4.
Owen
