[AusNOG] SMH: "No room at the internet"

[Mark Newton]

On 19/05/2010, at 5:55 PM, Stuart Low wrote:

> Assuming the entire world doesn't just magically turn IPv6 so all
> websites work via the native stack, I'd be interested to hear how people
> in the ISP industry are dealing with situations where they've been
> forced to NAT their IPv6 client addresses to an IPv4 website.

Why would anyone want to do that?

What's more likely to happen is that residential users will be IPv4-NAT'ed,
thereby freeing up enough addresses to enable hosting customers to be 
dual-stack.

(for a price)

Then one's IPv6-capable residential customers get direct peer-to-peer 
connectivity to the website, and one's IPv4-only customers see it through
a NAT.

The NATs are going to be really atrocious, by the way. The IPv4 Internet
will carry increasingly massive quantities of suck.

  - mark

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