IPv6 woes - RFC

Sun Sep 12 18:35:22 UTC 2021

> On Sep 11, 2021, at 9:04 PM, Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways...
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>> On Sep 8, 2021, at 1:31 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
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>> If the mid size eyeballs knew ipv4 is going away in 10, 15, 20 years
>> whichever it is, then they'd of course have to start moving too,
>> because no upstream.
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> And they would fight it tooth and nail, just like they do now, and if they found an address they could NAT to, they would argue that that one address gave them the ability to avoid the transition -just like they do now.

Speaking for the smaller providers, there is enough of the Internet that is only accessible via IPv4 out there that CGN solutions are a reasonable way to manage the situation. There is also enough legacy equipment out there that doesn’t accommodate IPv6 that this process will still take several decades.

Edicts never work. More carrot, less stick.