Subj : SixXs stops
To   : Michiel Van Der Vlist
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Thu Apr 07 2016 20:30:14

Hi Michiel!

03 Apr 2016 23:24, from Michiel van der Vlist -> Richard Menedetter:

 RM>> I really do not understand why they do not throw in IPv6 in the
 RM>> mix ... But that is how it is :(
 MV> I think I can understand it. They are actually thinking ahead. An IPv6
 MV> only network is less complicated than a dual stack network. And in the
 MV> end hat is what we will end up with anyway. So why not go for an IPv6
 MV> only core network and as a transtion mechanism offer IPv4 via a
 MV> tunneling mechanism?

Yeah ... maybe ;))

 MV>>> But we want full dual stack. For now at least.
 RM>> Indeed!
 MV> As my fellow countryman, ex fidonet sysop and IPv6 Guru Iljitsch van
 MV> Beijnum remarked in his essays: the transition will be ugly... :-(

And late ;)
Wrote mythesis about mobile IPv6 in 2004 ...
The IPv6 RFC was quit old even back then ...

 RM>> I am at UPC Austria ... this is a DS-Lite only area :(
 MV> So let me ask you and think about this carefully: how much would it
 MV> really hurt you to go DS-Lite? How much do you really need a public
 MV> IPv4 address? If push comes to shove, how much would you be willing to
 MV> pay for it?

No IPv6 in the office, no IPv6 with many people, and most Fido nodes.

I discussed that very point with the network architect of a big ISP, who was looking into PCP.
I told him that offering IPv4 for 1 EUR/month makes much more sense ...
I would be willing to pay that to get dual stack.
PCP is a very braindead "solution" for DS-Lite port forwarding ...

CU, Ricsi

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