Subject: Re: v6 question
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/10/2000 13:27:03
> Nobody is doing v6 yet. (maybe I'm wrong...)
Well, I know of at least two ISPs which have started serious (I mean,
not hobby-for-researcher type) IPv6 connectivity services. I hope
more ISPs to follow.
http://www.iij.ad.jp/IPv6/index-e.html
http://www.trumpet.com.au/
IPv6 has chicken-and-egg problem I think:
- ISP will not deploy it until big-router-company ships it
- big-router-company will not ship it until ISP plans to deploy
- even if customer asks ISP, most of ISP do not care
I really hope IPv6 in *BSD to break this rather bad loop.
> When they do, there shouldn't be a shortage of addresses, and hopefully
>this will mean that they can give us topologically interesting address out of
>some pool they have. If someone solves the multihoming vs aggregation problem
>(like the kid in "Angels on the Field" movie.. "It could happen!"), then
>maybe we can use any allocation with a cable modem.
Yup, IPv4 multihoming (using portable address) does not work well with
aggregation-oriented address allocation like IPv4 CIDR blocks and
whole IPv6 space. There are couple of proposals in IETF ipng/ngtrans,
which I love to test it and hear more opinions/comments.
itojun