NY Times on IPv4 depletion

david.binet at orange-ftgroup.com david.binet at orange-ftgroup.com
Tue Feb 15 09:48:50 UTC 2011


Dear all,

Actually I fully agree with Cameron. 
>From an operator point of view, it is quite difficult to rely on some specific functions in mobile, besides an IPv6 stack - that is already difficult to get if we have a look on IPv6-ready devices available on market. I do not know how we can mandate some DS-lite functions in devices, for example, as far as there is no document where 3GPP devices are "specified". So, it is not possible to set up some IPv6 introduction strategy based on some solutions integrated in devices. In mobile context, I think it is more adapted to encourage IPv6 native communications and to rely on NAT64 for IPv4-only appls access even if we all know that such translation solution has some drawbacks.     

David
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Mark Andrews [mailto:marka at isc.org] 
> Envoyé : lundi 14 février 2011 23:53
> À : Cameron Byrne
> Cc : North American Network Operators Group
> Objet : Re: NY Times on IPv4 depletion
> 
> 
> In message 
> <AANLkTikOS1H-2APnQqWqfsj7N-L=kuDYGNBpYWox-DiW at mail.gmail.com>
> , Came ron Byrne writes:
> > --00163630f77d957e25049c454dc0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > 
> > On Feb 14, 2011 1:52 PM, "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > In message <4D597216.1030400 at brightok.net>, Jack Bates writes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 2/14/2011 12:12 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> > > > > Too bad the article pushes my mobile device to their 
> mobile site 
> > > > > mobile.nytimes.com and that references an ipv4 
> literal for the 
> > > > > picture
> > to
> > > > > load .... so not only is nytimes not ipv6 it is also 
> broken for 
> > > > > ipv6
> > only
> > > > > users behind nat64 ....
> > > >
> > > > That's almost as bad as the hundreds of subdomains used in 
> > > > webpages which sometimes hit broken load balancers 
> (reporting nxdomain for AAAA).
> > >
> > > Very few do that anymore.  What they do however is return 
> the wrong 
> > > SOA record.
> > >
> > > > So you have to check each and every domain in the 
> source to find 
> > > > which ones are broken.
> > >
> > > Which one really shouldn't have to do.  Add DS-Lite 
> support to the 
> > > phone and have the carriers advertise that they support 
> DS-Lite and 
> > > the IPv4 literal problem goes away.
> > >
> > > This has been done in a phone already so it is possible to do.
> > >
> > 
> > Ds-lite has been dismissed by 3gpp. Nytimes needs to start 
> using fqdns 
> > and ideally ipv6.  Until then, it's their content that's being 
> > mangled. It is not reasonable for network operators to engineer for 
> > amateur web programming mistakes
> 
> It still doesn't stop handest manufatures adding DS-Lite 
> support and operators responding to the DHCP option so the 
> handsets can find the AFTR box.
> 
> NAT64/DNS64 may be the only operator side only solution but 
> it has lots of limitation to it and it can't be made to work 
> as well has DS-Lite even once the handset know the DNS64 
> prefix and BIH is added to translate IPv4 to IPv6 inside the 
> handset using the DNS64 prefix.
> 
> Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka at isc.org
> 
> 
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