[98055] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Durand, Alain)
Tue Jul 24 11:25:01 2007
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:06:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <p06240805c2cb8c0c4db8@[192.168.3.65]>
From: "Durand, Alain" <Alain_Durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: "John Curran" <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: "nanog" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Curran [mailto:jcurran@istaff.org]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:20 AM
> To: Durand, Alain
> Cc: nanog
> Subject: RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan
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> Alain -
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> Present residential broadband Internet service is "provide the
> customer with access to/from any public-facing IPv4-based
> resource"
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> Around 2011 (date for discussion purpose only) residential
> broadband Internet service is "provide the customer with
> access to/from any public-facing IPv6-based Internet resource"
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> The specific "vision" of how to provide such service is left to
> the provider. The Internet/IAB/IETF/ICANN/ISOC/... history
> does not proscribe such items as prefix size, static versus
> dynamic addressing, management models, minimal security,
> or much else for that matter... It's entirely left to the service
> provider. =20
Yes, this this correct. However, there is a fairly 'common' expectation
today about what the 'user experience' is.
Sure, YMMV, but very often the v4 story is a direct PC connected behind
a
modem or a v4 NAT box + all the NAT traversal baggage + a bunch of
device
in the home that may have different 'upgrade path' to v6...
So, even though this is not written by any I*, this is where we are
starting
from. Now my question is: where do we land? Simply saying:
> "provide the customer with
> access to/from any public-facing IPv6-based Internet resource"
is not sufficient, IMHO, to describe a transition plan effectively.
- Alain.
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