[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 review phase comments

At 00:04 29/05/2008, marc.neuckens at belgacom.be wrote:

>Nick,
>
>Even if there will be a market to buy Ipv4 address space, it will not be
>able to satisfy the address needs of the bigger broadband providers.
>(ETNO or other)
>Hoping that a IPv4 maket will give you the required addresses to
>continue to assign an Ipv4 address to each (new) individual subscriber
>is wishfull thinking.
>
>So we (as an industry) have to find a cost effective solution to consume
>(much) less than 1 IPv4 address per broadband user between now and
>exhaustion time. (Ipv6 or NAT or other)
>
>Migrating existing customers to a new solution/service is not easy or
>cheap (especially if they have to replace their CPE).
>I suppose that this solution (IPv6) will be apllied first to the growth
>(new users) and later to migrate existing users.

We just finished implementing a procurement for upstream. One thing we found with many of the really large ISPs is their poor support for IPv6. Few if any had IPv6 throughout their backbones.

We should all be pushing our peers to provide a complete v6 service. That's the only way it's going to be available when v4 space really becomes tight. When your local provider goes rushing to his upstream, they'd better be able to provide a v6 service. 
ISPs could start marketing themselves as "v6 ready" rather like was done for the millenium.


-- Tim