<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To change direction a little here to focus this on something other than NAT:<div><br></div><div>One thing that is on my mind and we have internally been struggling with is:</div><div><br></div><div>What DOES an IPv6 broadband service really look and smell like?</div><div><br></div><div>It's not that easy to map our existing ingrained views on an IPv4 broadband service onto a v6 or dual stack world.</div><div><br></div><div>What IP ranges do customers get with IPv6? /128 and NAT/Proxy? /96? /64? /48? etc </div><div>Do they necessarily get a static subnet? Why/Why Not? What implications does it have for your internal IGP?</div><div>If they get a static subnet then do they get to play with reverse mappings?</div><div>How will the transition from v4 to dual stack to some interim step to v6 only go?</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>What do the CPE vendors need to support? What do we need to support? </div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Matthew Moyle-Croft Internode/Agile Peering and Core Networks<br>Level 4, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia<br>Email: <a href="mailto:mmc@internode.com.au">mmc@internode.com.au</a> Web: <a href="http://www.on.net/">http://www.on.net</a><br>Direct: +61-8-8228-2909<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> Mobile: +61-419-900-366<br>Reception: +61-8-8228-2999 Fax: +61-8-8235-6909<br></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>