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Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Wed Jan 16 11:32:08 2013
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:31:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: fredrik danerklint <fredan-nanog@fredan.se>
In-Reply-To: <50F6D16A.7070202@fredan.se>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, fredrik danerklint wrote:
> From the article:
>
> "Faced with the shortage of IPv4 addresses and the failure of IPv6 to take
> off, British ISP PlusNet is testing carrier-grade network address translation
> CG-NAT, where potentially all the ISP's customers could be sharing one IP
> address, through a gateway. The move is controversial as it could make some
> Internet services fail, but PlusNet says it is inevitable, and only a test at
> this stage."
I would hope that PlusNet has valid, well-thought-out reasons for
deploying CGN instead of IPv6. Not knowing those, I can only jugde their
position on its face: foolish and short-sighted.
To quote a NANOG veteran: "I encourage my competitors to do this" :)
jms
