[170001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Sat Mar 22 18:57:32 2014
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:51:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <532E1384.1010209@foobar.org>
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 22/03/2014 19:35, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>> CGN also comes with lots of downside that customers are likely to find
>> unpleasant. For some operators, customer (dis)satisfaction might be the
>> driver that ultimately forces them to deploy IPv6.
>
> don't believe for a moment that v6 to v4 protocol translation is any less
> ugly than CGN.
True, but the ugliness of NAT64 and friends will decrease over time as
more people go v6. The ugliness of IPv4 in general, and CGN/LSN will
likely increase over time as people have to jump through more NAT hoops to
reach an increasingly ugly/fragmented IPv4 Internet.
jms