North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff

  • From: Sam Stickland
  • Date: Mon Jun 04 05:54:52 2007

Jared Mauch wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:28:34PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
Hi,

As more and more cool IPv6 applications and services are becoming
available, I converted the former FAQ entry we had on this into a more
easily found/remembered page.

	I was doing some searching and came across the following slides
from Gert on his operational experiences with IPv6.  Not sure if others
are interested, but it's worthwhile to take a few moments to look at.

http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/presentation-doering-ipv6-25mar07.pdf

- Jared

In answer to two questions at the end of this document:

   • what are enterprises waiting for?
   • should we ditch IPv6, and live with IPv4 + NAT forever?

Personally I hate NAT. But I currently work in a large enterprise environment and NAT is suprisingly popular. I came from a service provider background and some of the attitudes I've discovered towards private addresses in enterprise environments are quite surprising. Aside for the usual proponents of using NAT to hide your internal address infrastructure (which security always seem to insist upon) quite a popular design rule of from seems to be "Only carry public addresses on the public Internet and only carry private addresses on your private network" :-|

If an Enterprise doesn't have a great deal for IP addresses that need to be routed on the public internet, and they thing that NAT is a _good_ design choice, it seems to me that they don't have a great deal of pressure to move to IPv6.

S