Verizon DSL moving to CGN

Mon Apr 8 09:54:14 UTC 2013


On 4/8/13 9:41 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2013, at 23:27 , Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote:
> 
>> > * Owen DeLong
>> > 
>>> >> The need for CGN is not divorced from the failure to deploy IPv6, it
>>> >> is caused by it.
>> > 
>> > In a historical context, this is true enough. If we had accomplished
>> > ubiquitous IPv6 deployment ten years ago, there would be no IPv4
>> > depletion, and there would be no CGN. However, that ship has sailed long
>> > ago. You're using present tense where you should have used past.
>> > 
> Respectfully, I disagree. If the major content providers were to deploy
> IPv6 within the next 6 months (pretty achievable even now), then the
> need for CGN would at least be very much reduced, if not virtually
> eliminated.
> 


	I though that they have done it last year around June 8th.  ;-)

	In fact, the need for CGN has been reduced if you count that 30-40% of
your traffic would go to those places. Although CGN is going to be a
necessary evil, deploying CGN without IPv6 would be a mistake IMHO.

/as