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Re: /8 end user assignment?

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Mon Aug 08 12:36:35 2005

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:

> 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.

oh, you mean like how are they going to manage that device which is
imbedded and doesn't know from v6 today? :) yea, I was just repeating a
quote from the conference, nothing more. Funny though it was.