Re: [v6ops] IPREF as a transitioning tool

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>> We already have the ability for IPv6 to connect to IPv6 to IPv4 using NAT64.  This can be run
>> with initiating traffic coming from both directions at the same time.  IPv6 on the public side
>> to IPv4 on the private side with static mapping and AAAA records in the DNS as well as the more
>> common use of dynamic mappings when running IPv6 only on the private side.  This has been done
>> for many years now.
> 
> ...thereby reinforcing IPv4. You will never do away with IPv4 Internet this way.
> 

I observe the contrary. Every time I enable IPv6 in an ISP or enterprise network, the amount of IPv6 traffic is bigger and bigger. In a residential ISP, it comes often to 85% of IPv6 traffic. In fact we see that with measurements from Google, Meta, Akamai, etc.

Also if I understood correctly, your mechanism requires an IPv4 option, and that’s not easy to deploy, actually this is the reason we have IPv6 instead of "IPv4+”, because the effort to deploy one or the other is the same, and IPv6 provides a better feature set in the long term, that if we just had “upgraded IPv4”.


> For as long as IPv4 Internet exists, the transition to IPv6 will never be completed.  Are you concerned at all that this may happen? Has there ever been a doubt in your mind that IPv4 might survive?  Is the fight over transition tools worth risking IPv6? IPREF transitions only to pure IPv6, it uses only pure IPv6 Internet. It removes IPv4 addresses.


Yes, of course, there will be some IPv4 traffic remaining in some networks, until some “un-updated” devices or apps are being used, but with IPv6-only with IPv4aaS, this is a no-brainer for most of the networks.



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