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Re: IPv6 woes - RFC
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:16:09 -0700
On 9/12/21 4:59 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
I doubt many vendors were chomping at the bit to support CGNATdefinitely. they hate to sell big expensive boxes.
Back in the early 2000's the first rumblings of what would eventually turn into CGN started popping up at Cablelabs. I went to the EVP of Service Provider and basically told him that he had a choice between that mess or developing ipv6. I doubt he was interested in doing anything at all, but he chose ipv6, at least in the abstract. Steve Deering and I then went around to all of the BU's trying to figure out what it would take for them to implement ipv6 in the routing plane. Cablelabs was also pretty ipv6-focused too making a similar calculation.
So no, they weren't interested in it either. They were completely driven by what the providers wanted and what a large group of providers have since made pretty clear is that horrible hacks are fine by them if it gets them out of a short term bind. But it's hardly uniform across the industry. This is a classic reverse-tragedy of the commons.
Mike
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Tim Howe (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Bjørn Mork (Sep 08)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Saku Ytti (Sep 08)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Fred Baker (Sep 11)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Brian Johnson (Sep 12)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 12)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 12)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 12)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Michael Thomas (Sep 12)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 12)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Michael Thomas (Sep 12)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Mark Tinka (Sep 13)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 13)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Nick Hilliard (Sep 13)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 13)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Masataka Ohta (Sep 14)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Baldur Norddahl (Sep 13)
- RE: IPv6 woes - RFC Tony Wicks (Sep 13)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Joe Maimon (Sep 13)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Michael Thomas (Sep 13)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Michael Thomas (Sep 13)