Re: IPv6 for Websites

On 9/27/12 4:41 PM, "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe_at_affirmedsystems.com> wrote:

>A lot of people were talking about ipv6 right before 9/11... I bought a
>book with an ipv6 chapter at the Borders at 5 WTC in august 2001. 11
>years later, and ipv4 is still the standard...
>
>Honestly, of the "7 Billion devices" that need internet access how many
>of them need an inbound public IP to receive data? How many can use
>rfc1918 nat without an issue?
>
>There has to be some "killer app" that makes IPv6 a good investment in
>time before companies will invest time in to it. (other than Johnny,
>needs to learn IPv6 on our live network to pass his CCIE)

My company has a lot of customers. Those customers have a lot of devices,
usually 2 of which per site need an IP which cannot be NAT'd, because a
direct connection is required for management and billing purposes. RFC1918
space is not enough, so they were addressed using real ipv4 space. Since
6/6 this year, we have been migrating management IP's to ipv6, allowing us
to reclaim ipv4 space. This means we're not feeling the ipv4 glut and
stinginess from ARIN anywhere nearly as bad as other folks.

While we were building the network out to deploy ipv6 for those devices,
we also built in the capability to hand customers ipv6 addresses publicly,
not simply for internal management and billing traffic. All we need to do
is flip the switch, and they'll be handed public ipv6.

As ipv4 space becomes less available, the prices for ipv4 space will rise.
We may be able to use our reclaimed ipv4 space as another revenue stream
for the holdouts who refuse to transition. You will also find things like
prefix hijacking start to become more prevalent.

Ipv6 is coming, and you're coming with us whether you like it or not :) I
know it's hard to believe, but there is a real and honest need for ipv6.
The real hold up is (and for the foreseeable future, will be) application
and security support.

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Received on Fri Sep 28 2012 - 13:52:33 ART