Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

Tue Apr 20 23:54:59 UTC 2010

In message <67D28817-D47B-468F-9212-186C60531140 at internode.com.au>, Mark Newton
 writes:
> 
> On 20/04/2010, at 1:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > Changing from a public IP address to a private IP address is a big
> > change in the conditions of the contract.  People do select ISP's
> > on the basis of whether they will get a public IP address or a
> > private IP address.
> 
> Seems to me your objection is based on whether or not the customer
> gets a public address vs a private address.
> 
> There's no need for NAT pools to be RFC1918.  Pretty sure everyone
> is going to get a public address of some form... it just won't
> necessarily be globally unique to them.

RFC1918 addresses are not the only source of private addresses.  If
you are giving out addresses behind a NAT then they are private address.

> As for jurisdictional issues:  This particular Australian ISP amended
> its T&C document to give us the discretion of providing LSN addresses
> about two years ago.  Will we need to?  Perhaps not.  But if we do, the
> T&C's are already worked out.  Looking ahead in time and forecasting
> future risks is one of the things businesses are supposed to do, right?

Which is a good thing to do.  If you are offering a (potentially)
degraded service then the customer needs to be informed before they
agree to the service.

Mark
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