Re: chicago IETF IPv6 connectivity

[Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org>]

At 2:36 PM +0900 7/1/07, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>  > > Maybe we are getting to the point in time where we should only have 
> >  > IPv6 at IETF meetings
> >
> >  good luck. Until the ISPs and our corporate networks deploy it, we 
> >  can't go there.
>
> 	to use legacy protocol like IPv4 :-) you can use IPv6-to-IPv4
> 	tranlators like NAT-PT or RFC3142.

NAT-PT (RFC 2766) is being moved to Historic status. RFC 3142 is 
Informational. Without a standards-track method for people to use 
IPv4, changing a production network to IPv6 seems unwise.

> their scalability is no worse
> 	than IPv4-to-IPv4 NAT.

That may be true, but it is also irrelevant, given that the current 
production network doesn't use IPv4 NAT at all.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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