[AusNOG] IPv6

[Craig Askings]

On 31 Mar 2015, at 11:49 pm, Chris Hurley <chris at minopher.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Second mistake was not making the NBN IPv6 only. This was a chance to draw
> a line in the sand, rather than say for an extreme example "You can run
> AppleTalk over it". Which under the current spec you technically can, mind
> you Apple has dropped this ages ago from their support protocols.
> 
> So given we have run out of IPv4 addresses what is the NBN proposing?
> 
> Or is the new NAT scheme the saviour? Rather than making some real hard
> calls.
> 

The NBN is a layer 2 network access network (satellite not withstanding). NBN doesn’t need to propose anything. IPv4 exhaustion is the RSP’s problem to solve not theirs.