[99774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Oct 4 04:44:25 2007
In-Reply-To: <p06240806c32930d45e9b@[192.168.3.65]>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:42:50 +0200
To: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3-okt-2007, at 14:14, John Curran wrote:
>> I'd rather have IPv4 with massive NAT and IPv6 without NAT than
>> both IPv4 and IPv6 with moderate levels of NAT.
> That's great, guys, if "IPv4 with massive levels of NAT" actually
> resembles today's Internet and is actually a viable choice.
It doesn't have to be viable. If it isn't, that's good reason for
people to move to IPv6.
> Once free pool depletion occurs and address reuse enters the equation,
> we've got high demand for block fragmentation and a tragedy
> of the commons situation where everyone's motivations are to
> inject their longer prefixes and yell at others not to do the same.
Good reason to start working on that IPv6 transition plan while there
is still time.
