Re: Application protocols and Address Translation

Tony Hansen said:
> The major problem I see is the desire of ISPs to only allow one IP 
> address to be grabbed per connection to the ISP.
[...]
> As long as ISPs continue to work under this pretext, it won't matter if 
> they're handing out IPv4 #'s or IPv6 #'s -- they'll still only want to 
> hand out a single IP address, and people are going to continue to use 
> NAT in some form to get around the problem.
> 
> I think we need some incentive for them to hand out IPv6 addresses in 
> chunks of /24 or larger. I don't know what such an incentive would be.

Why /24, for goodness sake? Surely /64 is big enough for any organisation
that's going to be connecting through this kind of ISP?

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Received on Monday, 2 December 2002 12:14:33 UTC