Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:

> On Sunday, March 23, 2014 06:57:26 PM Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> > ISP's have done a good job of brain washing their
> > customers into thinking that they shouldn't be able to
> > run services from home. That all their machines
> > shouldn't have a globally unique address that is
> > theoritically reachable from everywhere.  That NAT is
> > normal and desiriable.
> >
> > I was at work last week and because I have IPv6 at both
> > ends I could just log into the machines at home as
> > easily as if I was there. When I'm stuck using a IPv4
> > only service on the road I have to jump through lots of
> > hoops to reach the internal machines.
>
> I expect this to change little in the enterprise space. I 
> think use of ULA and NAT66 will be one of the things 
> enterprises will push for, because how can a printer have a 
> public IPv6 address that is reachable directly from the 
> Internet, despite the fact that there is a properly 
> configured firewall at the perimetre offering half-decent 
> protection?
>
> Mark.

So ULA the printers (if you must).

That doesn’t create a need for ULA on anything that talks to the internet, nor does it create a requirement to do NPT 
or NAT66.

Owen