Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

Mon Apr 19 15:08:06 UTC 2010

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:

> I'm looking at both, and, frankly, LSN (large scale NAT) is not as 
> trivial as you think. I actually talk to and work with some of these 
> very large providers on a regular basis. None of them is looking forward 
> to deploying LSN with anything but dread. The support issues, user 
> experience, CALEA problems, and other issues with LSN are huge.  None of 
> them that I am aware of are considering using lSN to free up addresses 
> to hand over to hosting providers.

Well said.

I've been pondering LSN lately.  I think people have haven't been involved 
in large scale service changes or migrations can't appreciate just how 
many unanticipated edge cases can appear and blindside a project.

I expect that deploying IPv6 will be far less problematic than deploying 
LSN for a large ISP.

Rob

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