Comcast Activates First Users With IPv6 Native Dual Stack Over DOCSIS

Brzozowski, John John_Brzozowski at Cable.Comcast.com
Wed Feb 2 14:31:07 CET 2011


Mark,

The short answer is as follows:

* this is a trial, so we are taking a conservative approach
* this may not be the default configuration for production roll out
* lastly, the gateway does not need any more than a /64 and as such did
not provide a hint for anything shorter

John
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On 2/2/11 3:41 AM, "Mark Smith"
<nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:50:09 -0500
>John Jason Brzozowski <jjmb at jjmb.net> wrote:
>
>> FYI
>> 
>> 
>>http://blog.comcast.com/2011/01/comcast-activates-first-users-with-ipv6-n
>>at<http://blog.comcast.com/2011/01/comcast-activates-first-users-with-ipv
>>6-native-dual-stack-over-docsis.html>
>> 
>>ive-dual-stack-over-docsis.html<http://blog.comcast.com/2011/01/comcast-a
>>ctivates-first-users-with-ipv6-native-dual-stack-over-docsis.html>
>> 
>
>Why a single /64? You certainly won't be only getting just a /32, and
>I'm sure you've got way less than 4 billion customers. A /60 would have
>been a conservative option if you wanted to dip your toe in the water,
>yet still would allowing people to use subnets in their home if they
>wanted to perform some of their own experiments - your trial
>participants are more likely to have a few routers in their home that
>they may want to use to experiment with IPv6 and IPv6 routing.
>
>Regards,
>Mark.



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