[159739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Jones)
Sat Jan 19 01:27:47 2013
In-Reply-To: <50FA2587.6020206@dougbarton.us>
From: Mike Jones <mike@mikejones.in>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:26:53 +0000
To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 19 January 2013 04:48, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
> No, because NAT-like solutions to perpetuate v4 only handle the client side
> of the transaction. At some point there will not be any more v4 address to
> assign/allocate to content provider networks. They have seen the writing on
> the wall, and many of the largest (both by traffic and market share) have
> already moved to providing their content over v6.
Potentially another source of IPv4 addresses - every content network
(/hosting provider/etc) that decides they don't want to give their
customers IPv6 reachability is a future bankrupt ISP with a load of
IPv4 to sell off :)
- Mike
