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Re: [v6ops] IPv6-only mobile ISP alliance

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Thu, 11 January 2018 11:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] IPv6-only mobile ISP alliance
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Le 11/01/2018 à 12:47, Mikael Abrahamsson a écrit :
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
> 
>> But do not forget that there is no operator that transports GTP in 
>> IPv6, even when that is for "IPv6-only" smartphones.  They all 
>> transport in on IPv4.  That's why, for me, it is hard to talk about 
>> "IPv6-only" mobile operators.
> 
> No, it's not. It's only you who focus on this. Everybody else (which has 
> been said repeatedly) defines what the customer device sees, which means 
> an IPv6 only PDP context carried over IPv4 GTP packets is defined by 
> everybody (but you) as "IPv6 only".

I agree that most people consider "IPv6 only" in mobile networks to mean 
IPv6 PDP Type, as opposed to the IPv4IPv6 PDP Type.

When times comes, maybe we will want to to write down a common 
definition of "IPv6 only", and then we'll see.

Alex

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