[83246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Mon Aug 8 09:34:44 2005
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:33:47 -0400
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0508072052400.3650@parapet.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8/7/05 4:54 PM, "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, William Warren wrote:
>
>>
>> I think i did not make myself clear. The corrections off-list are
>> valid..:) However the modems are accessed by the providers using
>> RFC1918 space and not public IP space. This is true it does not mean
>
> and there was a mention at IETF by Alian of comcast (formerly of FT I
> thought?) that comcast was looking at an immediate ipv6 rollout: "because
> net 10 is not big enough"... 'immediate' on some scale not 'ten years out'
> (no timeframes mentioned, sorry)
I suspect Comcast's mouth is bigger than its stomach, as it were. They have
a few other things they may want to tackle before rolling out v6. I don't
see a Comcact v6 rollout positively impacting their reliability.
- Dan
