[99688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating demand for IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Oct 2 14:48:35 2007
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0710020942q2b94707cx27e80ad7d597a5bc@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:23:32 -0400
To: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 12:42 PM -0400 10/2/07, William Herrin wrote:
>
>As far as I can tell, IPv6 is at least theoretically capable of
>offering exactly two things that IPv4 does not offer and can't easily
>be made to offer:
>
>1. More addresses.
>2. Provider independent addresses
>
>At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT,
>eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a negative
>demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up.
#1 has been partially mitigated by NAT, and perhaps only temporarily.
The last chapter of that book is yet to be written.
/John
