Re: ISP customer assignments

[Justin Shore <justin () justinshore com>]

Dan White wrote:
> How are other providers approaching dial-up? I would presume we are in the
> same boat as a lot of other folks - we have aging dial-up equipment that
> does not support IPv6 (3com Total Control). Our customer base has dropped
> quite a bit, and we have even kicked around the idea dropping that service
> and forcing customers to purchase broadband service or go elsewhere.
>
> What are other providers doing, or considering doing?

I'd like to beat this dead horse some more if you gents don't mind.  I 
think there's still some life left in the beast before we haul it off to 
the glue factory.

I'm actually taking an IPv6 class right now and the topic of customer 
assignments came up today (day 1).  The instructor was suggesting 
dynamically allocating /127s to residential customers.  I relayed the 
gist of this thread to him (/48, /56 and /64).  I expect to dive deeper 
into this in the following days in the class.

What are providers doing for residential customers and how does it 
different from business customers?  At what point are you assigning 
bigger blocks?

To go along with Dan's query from above, what are the preferred methods 
that other SPs are using to deploy IPv6 with non-IPv6-capable edge 
hardware?  We too have a very limited number of dialup customers and 
will never sink another dollar in the product.  Unfortunately I also 
have brand-new ADSL2+ hardware that doesn't support IPv6 and according 
to the vendors (Pannaway) never will.  We also have CMTSs that don't 
support IPv6, even though they too are brand-new.  Those CMTSs top out 
at DOCSIS 2.0 and the vendor decided not to allow IPv6 to the CPEs 
regardless of the underlying CM's IPv6 support or lack thereof (like 
Cisco allowed for example).  Are providers implementing tunneling 
solutions?  Pros/cons of the various solutions?

Thanks
 Justin