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Re: /8 end user assignment?

  • From: Daniel Golding
  • Date: Mon Aug 08 09:35:32 2005

On 8/7/05 4:54 PM, "Christopher L. Morrow" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, William Warren wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I think i did not make myself clear.  The corrections off-list are
>> valid..:)  However the modems are accessed by the providers using
>> RFC1918 space and not public IP space.  This is true it does not mean
> 
> and there was a mention at IETF by Alian of comcast (formerly of FT I
> thought?) that comcast was looking at an immediate ipv6 rollout: "because
> net 10 is not big enough"... 'immediate' on some scale not 'ten years out'
> (no timeframes mentioned, sorry)

I suspect Comcast's mouth is bigger than its stomach, as it were. They have
a few other things they may want to tackle before rolling out v6. I don't
see a Comcact v6 rollout positively impacting their reliability.

- Dan