On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:57:22 +0100 Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/07/2010 22:38, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > As for those two scenarios (IPv6-only ISPs and IPv6-only clients, to > > simplify > > them), the document doesn't place them as first preference solutions. > > However, the fact is that various *extremely* large operators find > > themselves > > more or less forced into these scenarios by IPv4 exhaustion. > > Some of the extremely large operators have found themselves having to > deploy ipv6 extensively in order to manage CPE devices and their > infrastructure networks. However, I'm not aware of any large provider > which is deploying ipv6-only customer access products, either due to a > shortage of ipv4 space or any other reason. If you can supply names of > providers doing this, I'd be very interested to hear. > Does this qualify? What the customer sees is delivered over IPv6, unlike the CPE management problem, where the ISP is the "IPv6 customer". "IPv6: The Future of IPTV? In Japan it isn't the future, it's now." http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3795086/IPv6-The-Future-of-IPTV.htm > That's not to say that they won't start doing this relatively shortly. > And you correctly point out that we need to create solutions _now_ so > that access providers will have feature equivalence when they start > deploying ipv6 in anger on access / hosted networks. > > This is a cue to get people on this list to shout at their vendors for > ipv6 feature equivalence on their favourite kit. > > Nick >
