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Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 18:14:54 +0859 ()
Sean;
Then ask yourself, as an ISP, what benefit you get from IPv6. My answers: not a chance, none, and zero, respectively.
Don't you think it a benefit that you are allocated a large block of IPv4 address space if you support IPv6? <draft-ohta-address-allocation-00.txt> says: Usage Based Address Allocation Considered Harmful The current usage based IPv4 address assignment policies might have prolonged the useful lifetime of IPv4 address space but this has to the detriment of the the end-to-end architecture of the Internet. This memo proposes the adoption of an address assignment strategy that releases large blocks of IPv4 address space into the Internet. The objective of this policy is to encourage healthy Internet deployment models with end-to-end transparency and association of permanent connectivity with a stable IP address. This is intended to encourage provider support for open transparent Internet service environments that can be sustained with the adoption of IPv6. and there will be some experimental assignment "soon".
| At some point, when ARIN just stops issueing IPv4 address space, | I would say it would be in a {I,N}SPs best intrest to switch. This is not "soon".
That's why usage based address allocation is considered harmful. However, deployment of the policy in the draft above makes it real soon. Of course, more serious problem is in multihoming but the solution, as usual, is to rely on the end to end principle as described in: draft-ohta-e2e-multihoming-00.txt Masataka Ohta
Current thread:
- When IPv6 ... if ever? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Sep 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? smd (Sep 02)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Bill Fumerola (Sep 02)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Nathan Lane (Sep 02)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Dave Morton (Sep 02)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Leo Bicknell (Sep 02)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Majdi S. Abbas (Sep 02)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Masataka Ohta (Sep 03)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Majdi S. Abbas (Sep 03)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Masataka Ohta (Sep 03)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Bill Fumerola (Sep 02)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Nathan Lane (Sep 04)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? batz (Sep 07)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Dana Hudes (Sep 07)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Andrew Brown (Sep 07)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? batz (Sep 07)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Masataka Ohta (Sep 07)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? batz (Sep 08)
- Re: When IPv6 ... if ever? Masataka Ohta (Sep 09)