[99763] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JAKO Andras)
Wed Oct 3 20:59:36 2007
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 02:58:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: JAKO Andras <jako.andras@eik.bme.hu>
To: "Church, Charles" <cchurc05@harris.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <FA1BA229357DB640B944218F3585FECA3E26B1@mspe2k1.cs.myharris.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> break. It seems like an IPv6-only ISP would need to operate the NAT-PT
> boxes, and dedicate a block of v4 addresses the size of the expected
> concurrent online users to the NAT-PT box. Keep in mind that a v6 ISP
> with 1 million customers won't need a million v4 addresses, for obvious
> reasons. It's going to be considerably less than if each customer got a
> v4 address. NAT-PT does seem like a viable short term solution. I'm
An IPv6-only ISP with enough IPv4 addresses for its concurrent online
users seems strange. Why wouldn't that ISP give those v4 addresses to the
online users instead of the NAT-PT box? And why do you call it IPv6-only?
Andras
