Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet () consulintel es>]

If we agree that dual-stack can be only needed in a small part of the
network (and in my opinion in all the LANs, until all the applications are
IPv6-enabled), then you could use private addresses and softwires (LT2P) for
automatic tunneling of protocols that you can't proxy to avoid any new
translation protocol, break less things and make it all much simple. I will
just add proxies (v4<->v6) for protocols such as http, in order to avoid
unnecessarily tunneling traffic that can just be proxied.

We have this in real customers, so I know it works.

Regards,
Jordi




> De: John Curran <jcurran () mail com>
> Responder a: <owner-nanog () merit edu>
> Fecha: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:10:24 -0400
> Para: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
> CC: <nanog () nanog org>
> Asunto: Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action:
> Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)
>
>
> At 11:13 PM +0200 10/21/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > ...
> > If an IPv6-only box is going to talk to the IPv4 world, at some point, the
> > traffic needs to hit a dual stack system that can do the IPv6/IPv4
> > translation.
> >
> > I think an approach where you have a regular IPv4 NAT and then tunnel the RFC
> > 1918 addresses over an IPv6-only network would work better than NAT-PT.
>
> There are companies which would like to be connecting new
> customers with IPv6 as we approach IPv4 depletion and then
> handle translation for IPv4 site connectivity in their network
> i.e. customers connecting to "The Internet" via only IPv6
> with the expectation of reaching all Internet destinations
> (IPv4 and IPv6) without any hassles.
>
> While making the backbone networks dual-stack is going to
> be serious work, it's at least an understandable goal that
> operators can makes plans to hit.  That's not the case with
> the requirement to provide transparent connectivity to IPv4
> destinations via IPv6 transport.  NAT-PT wasn't exactly an
> elegant solution, but it's now precisely what some providers
> are looking for (so connecting customers via just IPv6 is at
> least viable).  Without it, every provider is going to come up
> with ad-hoc customer connection models with various IPv4
> tunnelling and translation games once IPv4 address blocks
> become generally unavailable.
>
> The irony is that the I* rationale for moving NAT-PT to historic
> was "to restore the end-to-end transparency of the Internet"
> and yet the only real chance we have to restore end-to-end
> transparency is to first have a transition to the IPv6 (using
> dual-stack, NAT-PT, and every other tool at our disposal) and
> then over time let present IPv4 destination sites add IPv6 for
> end-to-end transparency based on their actual need for it.
> Instead, central planning may have effectively killed the very
> tool that's needed to allow providers to provision new Internet
> customers over a pure IPv6-only model, and create the right
> motivation for existing Internet sites to go dual-stack and
> actually gain "end to end transparency" via IPv6.
>
> /John
>  




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