[members-discuss] [Ticket#2012072401002498] Probably Free /8 networks in RIPE region
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Paolo Di Francesco
paolo.difrancesco at level7.it
Fri Jul 27 12:33:23 CEST 2012
Hi William > Dear Paolo, > > I had a BT line in Italy (Now "Albacom" i think, AS8968) and i am not > sure what you mean... it's the opposite I guess, what was Albacom now it's BT > We had a static IP - I also had a phoneline and Internet from WIND (Or > Telecom Italia) under another contract which had *no* IP and was NATed > (Hell, even multilevel NAT....) As I said, it's a national law against terrorism. Yes you can do some form of NAT (afaik Fastweb does it) but you must do a "one customer NAT" with is quite long to explain. But the law says "one contract = one public IP". Long story anyway I can explain in private if you are curious ;) (quite off topic on the list) > > I am also not sure what you refer to with the IPv6 problems - Just buy > Level3, GBLX, Telecom Italia, Cogent or whatever transit - Why do you > need to rely on the local telco? (Is there no Last Line Unbundling in > Italy?) not getting your point sorry :( I have native IPv6 but I cannot connect with Telecom Italia for example, because they do not do IPv6 peering (last time I asked they wanted to tunnel me) Not even sure that Wind or Fastweb are natively peering IPv6 in Italy (at least last time I asked, now I do not have interest considering that their customers will not be IPv6) I was talking of the fact that big operators here will not give dual stack to end users. So yes, I can have my customers on IPv6 but they will never "talk in IPv6" with big-operator-customers > Our ISP in Milano does IPv6 over DSL as well (and over FTTH, and in our > case to our colocation)..... I guess our ISP is not Telecom Italia, Wind, or Fastweb or you have a business contract (i.e. not standard) :) well IPv6 for end users and mobile customers will not happen for a loooong time in Italy if I consider what big Italian operators said so far Obviously, if you pay extra for dual stack IPv6 (i.e. business premium contract) they say they do, but not for home/mobile users. "Not today and not in the near future" this is what they said > > -- > William Weber | RIPE: WW | LIR: at.edisgmbh > william at edisglobal.com <mailto:william at edisglobal.com> | william at edis.at > <mailto:william at edis.at> | http://edis.at | http://as57169.net > EDIS GmbH (AS57169) NOC > Graz, Austria > > Am 27.07.2012 um 12:05 schrieb Paolo Di Francesco: > >> Hi William >> >> >>> WIND uses by far *more* than 5mil IPs - They are the second largest >>> access provider in Italy, in fact they are so short already that they >>> run NAT now... >> >> I guess it's not the only net allocated to wind, but just to make things >> clear regarding the IPv4-IPv6 situation in Italy: >> >> 1) at the current date each provider MUST allocate one public IPv4 for >> each contract (not customer, contract, which means if you have one >> company with 50 employees at minimum one public IPv4 must be allocated) >> 2) NAT (=multiple customers beyond one public IP) with some form of >> "connection tracking" has been proposed, but yet not accepted by the >> Italian government >> 3) the big telco told us that dual stack cannot be done and they will >> never implement it so far because: >> 3.a) there is no mobile device well supporting IPv6 >> 3.b) IPv6 traffic is insignificant, the traffic is only IPv4 (well if >> they do not provider IPv6 to customers I see some barriers to have IPv6 >> traffic...) >> 3.c) IPv6 WILL NOT HAPPEN for a looooong time, and they will NOT provide >> dual stack >> 3.d) xDSL modems do not support IPv6 (maybe they should change modem >> brand, I don't know) >> 3.e) operating systems are not supporting IPv6 >> >> We asked them to give dual stack, but the message that I have heard is: >> no only IPv4 and NAT is the solution for the future, then maybe in some >> years (5? 10? 20??) we will reconsider IPv6 >> >> Therefore I see small and medium ISP running dual stack to be "future >> ready" while large operators in Italy will run IPv4 and NAT for a long, >> long time. >> >> Now if RIPE will consider a dual fee for IPv4 and IPv6 I guess that it >> will not help small LIRs to implement IPv6 and that will be a huge >> damage for the whole community. >> >> It will be funny that small ISP are implementing IPv6 and maybe paying >> more than big telcos. >> >> Regarding the IPv4-IPv6 policy, my personal opinion is that it's a >> commercial war: the longer IPv6 dual stack or transition will take, the >> better will be to keep the market closed and the current positions >> untouched. >> >> Should we consider an extra fee if you do NOT use IPv6 for customers???? >> >> But as I said, we should split the two discussions: one regarding IPv4 >> and IPv6 allocation (and mistakes of the past, when nobody knew what the >> hell was an IP) and another one regarding RIPE fees. Not saying those >> two things are not related just saying that IPv4 re-allocation policy >> for huge systems should be taken into serious consideration >> >> As a last note: if Wind and other operators are using NAT and they are >> happy with that (instead of implementing dual stack and migration >> mechanisms) then they DO NOT NEED IPv4, and then then can give it back >> to RIPE. If with one IPv4 you can put 1,000-10,000 customers, hey we are >> 60 millions in Italy we need few public IPv4 for big LIRS, right? >> >> Best regards >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Ing. Paolo Di Francesco >> >> Level7 s.r.l. unipersonale >> >> Sede operativa: Largo Montalto, 5 - 90144 Palermo >> >> C.F. e P.IVA 05940050825 >> Fax : +39-091-8772072 >> assistenza: (+39) 091-8776432 >> web: http://www.level7.it >> >> >> >> >> ---- >> If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss >> mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the >> general page: >> https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/view >> >> Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From >> here, you can add or remove addresses. > > > > ---- > If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss > mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the general page: > https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/view > > Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From here, you can add or remove addresses. > -- Ing. Paolo Di Francesco Level7 s.r.l. unipersonale Sede operativa: Largo Montalto, 5 - 90144 Palermo C.F. e P.IVA 05940050825 Fax : +39-091-8772072 assistenza: (+39) 091-8776432 web: http://www.level7.it
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