[158226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Nov 26 18:12:58 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:10:29 +0000
In-Reply-To: <95501E75-A1EF-48F2-8AA1-972BE6B94E90@delong.com>
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On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:37 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> CGN does not scale and cannot scale. At best, it's a hack that might allo=
w us to cope with a few years of transition while there are still devices i=
n homes that are IPv4-only, but it certainly doesn't reduce or remove the i=
mperative.
I agree wholeheartedly, but I'm unsure whether or not this view is held by =
those who control spending and prioritization within most, or even many, IS=
Ps.
Mobility (and everything is inexorably becoming mobile) is an obvious place=
where IPv6 makes a lot of sense, for example. But native IPv6 on one's ow=
n access networks and then gatewaying/proxying to IPv4 for actual 'Internet=
' connectivity seems to be a significant direction.
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