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<P><FONT SIZE=2>There was never a customer demand for NAT - it was just something that CPE vendors implemented because there was no other choice - it was in their best interests to do so for the contiguity of their product.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Mark Newton [<A HREF="mailto:newton@internode.com.au">mailto:newton@internode.com.au</A>]<BR>
Sent: Fri 1/22/2010 10:19 AM<BR>
To: Curtis Bayne<BR>
Cc: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<BR>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Less than 10% of IPv4 Addresses Remain Unallocated<BR>
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On 22/01/2010, at 10:00 AM, Curtis Bayne wrote:<BR>
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> The technology required to implement v6 on the NBN is available TODAY.<BR>
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We have customers in our trial on FTTH networks today :)<BR>
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> You can start developing strategies around currently available hardware TODAY. You can draft a migration strategy TODAY. You can bring v6 into your core TODAY. There may be no consumer demand yet, but one day there will be: don't be caught with your pants down.<BR>
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Apart from CPE, another missing element is the CGN boxes we'll all need<BR>
to keep IPv4 limping along.<BR>
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When you're talking to CPE vendors about missing v6 support, don't<BR>
forget to keep banging on the major equipment vendors about the bits<BR>
of the picture they aren't providing yet. It's tremendously irresponsible for<BR>
the majors to spend the last 10 - 15 years in IETF working groups<BR>
arguing about how IPv6 is supposed to work, then, when crunch time comes,<BR>
innocently claim total ignorance about the timeframes and pretend that<BR>
they've been completely blindsided by new IPv6 requirements.<BR>
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Vapourware doesn't cut it, and at this late stage any vendor who says, "There's<BR>
no customer demand" should be LARTed from orbit. That's no longer an<BR>
acceptable response to anything related to the Internet's IPv6 transition. <BR>
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- mark<BR>
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Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W)<BR>
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Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999<BR>
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