Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 12 19:50:41 UTC 2012


On 12 Mar 2012, at 19:30, Owen DeLong wrote:

> I know my view is unpopular, but, I really would rather see PI made inexpensive and readily available than see NAT brought into the IPv6 mainstream. However, in my experience, very few residential customers make use of that 3G backup port.

So what assumptions do you think future IPv6-enabled homenets might make about the prefixes they receive or can use?   Isn't having a PI per residential homenet rather unlikely?

It would be desirable to avoid NPTv6 in the homenet scenario.

Tim



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