Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?

Wed Jul 15 00:02:33 UTC 2015

On 07/14/2015 04:46 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> This goes back a number of years.  There was a product that literally 
> was a cardboard box that contained everything one needed to get 
> started on the Internet.  Just add a modem and a computer, and you 
> were on your way.  No fuss, no "learning curve".
>
> I'm beginning to think that someone needs to create a similar product, 
> but for IPv6 internet.  The Internet service providers would provide 
> the same sort of kit to get people started.  Just add a CSU/DSU (like 
> a cable modem) and a computer, and you are on your way.
>
> Also, I think we need a *real* book called "IPv6 for Dummies" (maybe 
> even published by IDG Books) that walks through all the beginner 
> stuff.  There's beginner stuff that I've seen by using a search 
> engine; a dead-tree book, though, may well be better for Joe Average.
>
> Just my pair-o-pennies(tm)
>
>

I am a small provider with a 16 bit asn, a /20 and a /22 of ipv4 and a 
/32 of v6, but no clue yet how to get from where I am today to where we 
all should be. The flame wars and vitrol and rhetoric is too much noise 
for me to derive anything useful from. Someone needs to stand up and 
lead. I will happily follow.

Whats really needed, is for you gods of ipv6, to write that 'ipv6 for 
ipv4 dummies', targeting service providers and telling us exactly what 
we need to do. No religious wars about subnet allocation sizes or dhcpv6 
vs slaac or anything. Tell us how to get it onto our network, give us 
reasonable deployment scenarios that leverage our experience with IPv4 
and tell us what we are going to tell our customers. Help us understand 
WHY nat is not a security model, and how to achieve the same benefits we 
have with nat now, in an ipv6 enabled world.

Mike