Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Zed Usser wrote:

> --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > >   So, in essence, you are advocating not to
> > > interconnect the IPv4-only and IPv6-only domains in any way?
> >
> > I'm advocating not depending on any such interaction
> > working as it's pretty clear that
> > the available solution set is fairly broken.
>  Fair enough. This approach will, however, relegate IPv6-only networks to second class citizenship status. Access to 
> the "real" Internet will require IPv4 and IPv6-only will be seen as the inferior choice, to be avoided as best as you 
> can. Not quite a ringing endorsement for IPv6, in other words.
>
>  This position also assumes that there will be enough IPv4 addresses to go around for everybody to dual stack. 
> Anybody not so fortunate will simply be left out in the cold.
>
> - Zed
Oh, I expect CGN/LSN to be connectivity of last resort, no question.

However, I don't expect it to work. I don't expect us to be able to resolve
the issues with it, and I expect that to fairly rapidly serve as motivation for
content providers to adopt IPv6.

Owen