[177669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 allocation plan, security, and 6-to-4 conversion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Fri Jan 30 11:45:07 2015
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:44:53 +0100
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
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* William Herrin
> nat64/nat46 - allows an IPv6-only host to interact in limited ways
> with IPv4-only hosts. Don't go down this rabbit hole. This will
> probably be useful in the waning days of IPv4 when folks are
> dismantling their IPv4 networks but for now the corner cases will
> drive you nuts. Plan on dual-stacking any network which requires
> access to IPv4 resources such as the public Internet.
For many folks, that's easier said than done.
Think about it: If everyone could just dual-stack their networks, they
might as well single-stack them on IPv4 instead; there would be no
point whatsoever in transitioning to IPv6 for anyone.
Tore
