[151376] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shared address space... a reality!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 16 19:22:07 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09D2E8F8@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:19:07 -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
On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:59 PM, George Bonser wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
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>> 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.
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> I think it will be used mostly as the middle 4 in NAT444 and in links =
between networks where there are RFC1918 network assignment collisions. =
My gut tells me we will see that net block being used for NAT on a lot =
of VPNs between RFC1918 networks.
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I would agree with both of those statements.
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>> I don't think any sane provider will use this as yet another way to
>> avoid deploying IPv4.=20
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> I hope you're right.
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Certainly of the providers I have spoken with about the subject, that =
seems
to be the prevailing attitude.
So there is some hope.
Owen
