Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Sat Nov 20 21:38:40 UTC 2021



> On Nov 19, 2021, at 12:11 , Jim <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 8:24 PM David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
>> 
> ...
>> Some (not me) might argue it could (further) hamper IPv6 deployment by diverting limited resources.
> 
> It may help IPv6 deployment if more V4 addresses are eventually
> released and allocated
> Assuming the RIRs would ultimately like to provision the usage of
> addresses within their own policies
> that the new address releases are exclusively for  'IPv6 Transition
> Tech.',  such as CGN NAT addresses,

CGN NAT is NOT a transition technology.

DS-LITE is an example of a transition technology 

CGN-NAT is an example of an avoidance of transition technology.

Owen




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