On 23/04/2009, at 8:12 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
In v6ops CPE requirements are being discussed so in the future, it
should be possible to buy a $50 home router and hook it up to your
broadband service or get a cable/DSL modem from your provider and
the IPv6 will be routed without requiring backflips from the user.
So there is a fair chance that we'll be in good shape for IPv6
deployment before we've used up the remaining 893 million IPv4
addresses.
I think this annoys people more than anything. We're how many years
into the development and deployment cycle of IPv6? What development
cycle is expected out of these CPE devices after a spec is FINALLY
published?
If the IETF is talking "future" and developers are also talking
"future", us little guys that design, build, and maintain the
networks can't really do much. I so hope that vendors get sick of it
and just make up their own proprietary methods of doing things. Let
the IETF catch up later on.
This work is actually mostly being done by some guys at Cisco, and
other vendors have plenty of input as well.
I would be surprised if CPEs that support the outcome of this work are
far behind the RFC being published (or even a late draft).
--
Nathan Ward