[AusNOG] What does an IPv6 broadband service look like? WAS Re: IPv4 Exhaustion

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

To change direction a little here to focus this on something other  
than NAT:

One thing that is on my mind and we have internally been struggling  
with is:

What DOES an IPv6 broadband service really look and smell like?

It's not that easy to map our existing ingrained views on an IPv4  
broadband service onto a v6 or dual stack world.

What IP ranges do customers get with IPv6?  /128 and NAT/Proxy?  /96? / 
64? /48? etc
Do they necessarily get a static subnet?  Why/Why Not?  What  
implications does it have for your internal IGP?
If they get a static subnet then do they get to play with reverse  
mappings?
How will the transition from v4 to dual stack to some interim step to  
v6 only go?

I know a lot of the geeks will go "well, obviously a static /48 with  
our own controllable reverse mappings" but on a LARGE scale with  
mostly non-geek home users then what exactly does it look like?

What do the CPE vendors need to support?   What do we need to support?

MMC

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