I'm thinking out loud.... >From one side, the industry is trying to promote the SDN/NFV model vs the >traditional appliance-per-service one. >From the other side, the same industry is trying to promote the stateless >model vs the stateless one regarding the IPv6 transition.
For an NFV perspective, i can see the DS-Lite solution being a better representative than Lw4o6/MAP, since it can "transfer" much more functionality (NAT) from the CPE to a compute server, making the virtual CPE a closer reality. So, if the compute power keeps on increasing (while at the same time cost starts decreasing), is there a chance in the near future we start re-thinking of changing our "IPv6-state" preferences? Or IPv6 transition mechanisms won't even exist when that happens? -- Tassos
