[AusNOG] /16 for sale.... well not really but why not!

[Paul Brooks]

On 25/01/2013 5:15 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
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> Forcing all the small providers who can't get enough space to move to v6, as you
> talk about Skeeve, won't fix the problem anywhere near as fast as doing it the other
> way around. It is true that it is band-aid if the smaller pockets of v4 left are
> simply re-allocated, but what isn't a bandaid is re-allocating the massive IP space.
> Imagine moving Telstra off v4, suddenly we'd have more than enough IPv4 space for
> the smaller providers in Australia, for whom rolling out v6 will cost far more as a
> percentage than it would Telstra.

The trouble with this and many of the other posts in this thread is an implicit
assumption that IPv6 is something that you *move to* - and then once you have moved to
IPv6 you don't need IPv4 space any more.
IPv6 is something you *add*, not move to. You need to add IPv6, so your customers can
communicate as much as possible with the new Internet. You still need to keep serving
out your IPv4 addresses, so your customers can keep communicating with the 'old
Internet' hold-outs that haven't also added IPv6 to their system. The IPv4 proportion
of total traffic should drop over time - but each ISP will still need to be handing
out IPv4 in parallel with IPv6 for probably decades to come.



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> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellego.net
> <mailto:skeeve+ausnog at eintellego.net>> wrote:
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>     There are short term solutions already:
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>     - Get your final /22
>     - New companies can get a /22
>     - You buy some IPv4 of the open market
>     - You invest in CGN/LSN to extend the life of your v4 (not an 'alternative' that
>     some stupid journalists suggested in the last week)
>     - You roll-out IPv6/Dual-Stack/etc faster and start shifting those you can
>

For a brand spanking new ISP, try getting by with a /22. Even deploying IPv6 from Day
0, buying IPv4 space on the open market is the only way forward for a new market
entrant, as IPv6-only isn't viable yet.

Paul.
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