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Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption


From: Todd Underwood <toddunder () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 01:30:41 +0000

Yep. Nat is terrible. Dual stack is even worse for end user exclusive.
Clients that migrate back and forth between different protocols at will
(hello Mac OS) are going to be really challenging for everyone, too.

But we didn't get magical, free, simple migration. So we could have done
some kind of 8+8 or LISP thing but we didn't. And here we are.


T

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015, 21:15 Dovid Bender <dovid () telecurve com> wrote:

Nothing to do with religion at all. I advocate IPv6 all the time as some
one who deals a lot with SIP. The issues are endless when dealing with NAT.
NAT is an ugly hack and should die already. It will take a few years for
router manufactures to get it right but them they do it will be better for
all.

Regards,

Dovid

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Underwood <toddunder () gmail com>
Sender: "NANOG" <nanog-bounces () nanog org>Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:42:57
To: Mark Andrews<marka () isc org>; Owen DeLong<owen () delong com>
Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption

i'm still confused, to be honest.

why are we 'encouraging' 'evangelizing' or 'forcing' ipv6 adoption.

it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the rest
of the internet.  it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess
we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons
learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).

so people will renumber their network assets into this new network
namespace when either:

1) the new non-internet ipv6 network has enough good stuff only on it that
it makes sense to go over there; or

2) the old ipv4 internet addresses get so expensive that ain't no one
willing to pay.

right now, neither of those things are true.  so people who are adopting
ipv6 are doing so for two reason:

A) blind, unmotivated religious reasons.  they "believe" in this new
protocol and have somehow managed to tie their identity up in it.  (this is
clearly a mistake for an engineer:  technology comes and goes.  don't ever
tie your identity up in some technology or you'll end up advocating DECNET
for the cloud at some point.  it won't be pretty).

B) strategic reasons.  there are people who think that switching costs are
going to be high and that there's an advantage to moving earlier to be
ready for coming demand when #1 or #2 above happen.  unlike A, B is
completely rational and smart.  it might be wrong, but it's not stupid at
all.  put mike leber and HE in this B category.

the only reason people are *advocating* ipv6 right now are that they've
made a religious choice, which is weird and should be a personal, not
public choice unless they are great commission ipv6 adherants [1], *or*
they have a vested interest in getting your business.

the first reason is religion and is off-topic for nanog and the second
reason is marketing (however well intentioned) and should also be off topic
for nanog.

so can we stop talking about ipv6 advocacy and move on to the network
engineering topics, please?  if someone is running ipv6 for whatever reason
and has questions, awesome.  if someone wants to talk about addressing
schemes, awesome.  but trying to convince someone to run LAT^H^H^Hipv6 or
whatever disconnected network protocol they're advocating today?  not
useful.

cheers,

t



On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 6:32 PM Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:


In message <4F2E19BA-D92A-4BEC-86E2-33B405C307BE () delong com>, Owen
DeLong
writes:

On Oct 1, 2015, at 13:55 , Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz () Janoszka pl>
wrote:

On 2015-10-01 20:29, Owen DeLong wrote:
However, I think eventually the residential ISPs are going to start
charging extra
for IPv4 service.

ISP's will not charge too much. With too expensive IPv4 many
customers
will migrate from v4/dual stack to v6-only and ISP's will be left with
unused IPv4 addresses and less income.

Nope… They’ll be left with unused IPv4 addresses which is not a
significant source of income and they’ll be able to significantly
reduce
the costs incurred
in supporting things like CGNAT.

Will ISP's still find other profitable usage for v4 addresses? If
not,
they will be probably be quite slowly rising IPv4 pricing, not wanting
to
overprice it.

Probably they will sell it to business customers instead of the
residential customers. However, we’re talking about relatively large
numbers of customers
for relatively small numbers of IPv4 addresses that aren’t producing
revenue directly at this time anyway.

Even with $1/IPv4/month - what will be the ROI of a brand new home
router?

About 2.5 years at that price since a brand new home router is about
$29.

Owen

The hard part is the internet connected TV's and other stuff which
fetches content over the internet which are IPv4 only despite being
released when IPv6 existed.  These are theoretically upgradable to
support IPv6 so long as the manufactures release a IPv6 capable
image.  The real question is will governments force them to do this.

Upgrading the router is a no brainer.  Upgrading the TV, games
consoles, e-readers, etc. starts to add up.

Mark
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