The point is that you can offer IPv6 to a lot of people using various 
instatntiations of 100.64.0.0/10 but using globally unique IPv6 addresses 
providing them full true internet access without NAT.

Yes, 6rd is a stopgap, but 6rd stopgap is better than multi-natted IPv4 only.

Owen

On Jun 20, 2014, at 07:22 , Gabriel Blanchard <[email protected]> wrote:

> 6rd is in my opinion a band-aid solution, I don't see the point of offering 
> IPv6 if it requires IPv4. native IPv6 should be offered where possible.
> 
> We offer native IPv6 to all our DSL customers but only on an opt-in basis, 
> we're although unfortunately unable to offer IPv6 over Cable since we still 
> depend on a certain incumbent...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 10:13 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; NANOG
> Subject: RE: Canada and IPv6 (was: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion)
> 
> Videotron (AS5769) is offering 6RD (RFC5969) to all residential customers, if 
> their gear supports it. (DHCP option 212)
> 
> (But our MGMT still calls it beta for now.)
> 
> JF
> 
> Jean-François Dubé
> Technicien, Opérations Réseau IP
> Ingénierie Exploitation des Réseaux
> Vidéotron
> 
> "NANOG" <[email protected]> a écrit sur 2014-06-18 20:16:01 :
> 
>> De : Sadiq Saif <[email protected]>
>> A : [email protected],
>> Date : 2014-06-19 12:43
>> Objet : Canada and IPv6 (was: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion) Envoyé 
>> par : "NANOG" <[email protected]>
>> 
>> On 6/18/2014 14:25, Lee Howard wrote:
>>> Canada is way behind, just 0.4% deployment.
>> 
>> Any Canadian ISP folk in here want to shine a light on this dearth of 
>> residential IPv6 connectivity?
>> 
>> Is there any progress being made on this front?
>> 
>> --
>> Sadiq Saif

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