[177686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 allocation plan, security, and 6-to-4 conversion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Fri Jan 30 16:40:28 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:40:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: Eric Louie <elouie@techintegrity.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAB-EkT7nkorQW6r6ugo-eFNoYJ3XnT2+COcSb=eVBcaT7dOK_A@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Eric Louie wrote:
>> If you assign a customer IPv6 space only, a translation mechanism is
>> needed to allow that customer to reach Internet destinations that only
>> speak IPv4 today. There's no way around that.
>>
> What IPv6 to IPv4 translation mechanisms are available for networks with
> multiple ingress/egress points?
A bunch were listed in an earlier post. Translation is generally best
done either as close to the customer edge as possible.
jms
