IPv6 deployment excuses - IPv6 only resources

Jacques Latour jacques.latour at cira.ca
Mon Jul 4 16:55:39 UTC 2016


Is there a list of IPv6 only ISP or services?  I'd be curious to trend that somehow, by geography, service type, etc... if any.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mark Andrews
>Sent: July-04-16 9:49 AM
>To: Matt Hoppes
>Cc: Tore Anderson; nanog at nanog.org
>Subject: Re: IPv6 deployment excuses
>
>
>In message <B9CDA0F3-AE6F-435D-9904-
>C2AE05BCCCCB at rivervalleyinternet.net>, Matt  Hoppes writes:
>> I disagree. Any data center or hosting provider is going to continue
>> to offer IPv4 lest they island themselves from subscribers who have
>> IPv4 only - which no data center is going to do.
>>
>> One can not run IPv6 only because there are sites that are only IPv4.
>>
>> Thus, as an ISP you can safely continue to run IPv4. Ipv4 won't be
>> going away for at least ten years or more - if ever.
>>
>> I'm not saying don't be ready for IPv6. I'm not saying don't
>> understand how it works. But doomsday isn't here.
>
>There are ISP's that are essentially IPv6 only today as they do not have enough
>IPv4 addresses to give all their customers a public
>IPv4 address.
>
>Once you need to run a GGN you may as well run DS-Lite, MAP* or
>(shudder) DNS64/NAT64 as NAT444.  There is no need to talk IPv4 to your
>customers today.  You still need a small number of IPv4 address to talk to
>legacy IPv4 servers on the internet.  Just because there owners don't know they
>are legacy servers doesn't mean they aren't.
>
>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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