On Nov 26, 2012, at 15:10 , "Dobbins, Roland" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:37 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> CGN does not scale and cannot scale. At best, it's a hack that might allow >> us to cope with a few years of transition while there are still devices in >> homes that are IPv4-only, but it certainly doesn't reduce or remove the >> imperative. > > I agree wholeheartedly, but I'm unsure whether or not this view is held by > those who control spending and prioritization within most, or even many, ISPs. > > Mobility (and everything is inexorably becoming mobile) is an obvious place > where IPv6 makes a lot of sense, for example. But native IPv6 on one's own > access networks and then gatewaying/proxying to IPv4 for actual 'Internet' > connectivity seems to be a significant direction. Interesting. All the IPv6 capable carriers I talk to are only gatewaying/proxying to IPv4 for things unreachable via IPv6. If you've got an IPv6 capable cell phone on an IPv6 capable mobile network, I doubt that you get to google through an IPv4 proxy. Owen
