[151364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shared address space... a reality!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 16 15:52:44 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09D2E63A@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:47:45 -0700
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In my perception, this is primarily a moving part that will be used by =
providers deploying IPv6 as a mechanism to compensate for things on the =
internet their customers want to reach that have not yet deployed IPv6.
If deploying IPv6 on your own network qualified as a complete solution =
to the problem, I suspect we'd actually be much further along in the =
process. Unfortunately, deploying IPv6 locally does not change the fact =
that you use the internet to talk to things not under your control and =
until they deploy IPv6, you cannot depend entirely on IPv6 to do that.
I don't think any sane provider will use this as yet another way to =
avoid deploying IPv4. OTOH, the number of not sane providers is somewhat =
scary, but, hopefully not of sufficient critical mass as to be =
meaningful in the long term.
Owen
