[166258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: comcast ipv6 PTR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Tue Oct 15 11:53:19 2013
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:52:23 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CALOgxGbUf8YabqfDCA8+OmFFDmMQ1Zdsk-sLa7JMETEiWcJWzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/15/2013 08:35 AM, TJ wrote:
>>
>> My cable company assigns me a different prefix every time the modem
>> reboots, about once a month, and I think that's pretty typical.
>>
> Really?
> I think my IPv6 address form Comcast has changed (maybe) twice in the last
> 18 months, and I think it was only once.
>
There's an entire universe within ietf who thinks that seamless
renumbering is
a Big Deal. We're obviously not completely there -- especially within
residential --
but any path forward should not count on the stability of prefixes.
Anywhere.
Mike
