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Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen D. Strowes)
Wed Jan 16 19:19:50 2013
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:28:20 -0800
From: "Stephen D. Strowes" <stephen.strowes@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1301161128550.19463@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 16/01/2013 08:31, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> 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.
Apparently they aren't _totally_ blind to v6, but it sounds like it's
been put in the mystery "when we have a spare moment!" bin:
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,106125.0.html
S.
