Looking for comments

Fri Jul 23 00:22:52 UTC 2010


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Smith" <nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
> To: "Nick Hilliard" <nick at foobar.org>
> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org>, "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, 23 July, 2010 12:17:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Looking for comments
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:57:22 +0100
> Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 22/07/2010 22:38, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > > As for those two scenarios (IPv6-only ISPs and IPv6-only clients,
> > > to simplify
> > > them), the document doesn't place them as first preference
> > > solutions.
> > > However, the fact is that various *extremely* large operators find
> > > themselves
> > > more or less forced into these scenarios by IPv4 exhaustion.
> >
> > Some of the extremely large operators have found themselves having
> > to
> > deploy ipv6 extensively in order to manage CPE devices and their
> > infrastructure networks. However, I'm not aware of any large
> > provider
> > which is deploying ipv6-only customer access products, either due to
> > a
> > shortage of ipv4 space or any other reason. If you can supply names
> > of
> > providers doing this, I'd be very interested to hear.
> >
> 
> Does this qualify? What the customer sees is delivered over IPv6,
> unlike the CPE management problem, where the ISP is the "IPv6
> customer".
> 
> "IPv6: The Future of IPTV? In Japan it isn't the future, it's now."
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3795086/IPv6-The-Future-of-IPTV.htm
> 
In the USA too, see netflix