Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

> On Sep 20, 2021, at 06:48 , Brian Turnbow via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > > v4 is so thoroughly fragmented and v6 is a lot less likely to become
> > > so.
> >
> > It is true that fragmentation is a problem. However, it merely means that IPv6
> > address space will also be fragmented and that
> > IPv4 can but IPv6 can't be deployed at full scale,
>
> Just this week We had our first customer asking if we can setup BGP to route the /48 they received from the 
> headquarters in the states.
> They are asking us to provide a few v4 addresses , but to use their own v6 block.
> Yes they are a large conglomerate with their own AS and a large v6 allocation, so not a common customer, but they 
> have hundreds of offices everywhere in the world where they are doing this... 
> I can just see the Cxx presenting their solution at some event and it becoming the new thing to do
> What you are still using your providers addresses? You must be crazy... We assign our own it's much better...
> A couple hundred corporations like this and the v6 table would surpass v4...

In such a case, I’m not convinced that’s a bad thing.

Owen