IPv6 woes - RFC

Tue Sep 21 05:55:48 UTC 2021

> On Sep 20, 2021, at 06:48 , Brian Turnbow via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>>> v4 is so thoroughly fragmented and v6 is a lot less likely to become
>>> so.
>> 
>> It is true that fragmentation is a problem. However, it merely means that IPv6
>> address space will also be fragmented and that
>> IPv4 can but IPv6 can't be deployed at full scale,
> 
> Just this week We had our first customer asking if we can setup BGP to route the /48 they received from the headquarters in the states.
> They are asking us to provide a few v4 addresses , but to use their own v6 block.
> Yes they are a large conglomerate with their own AS and a large v6 allocation, so not a common customer, but they have hundreds of offices everywhere in the world where they are doing this... 
> I can just see the Cxx presenting their solution at some event and it becoming the new thing to do
> What you are still using your providers addresses? You must be crazy... We assign our own it's much better...
> A couple hundred corporations like this and the v6 table would surpass v4...

In such a case, I’m not convinced that’s a bad thing.

Owen