[afnog] IPv6 transition mechanism used by ISP

[Mark Tinka]

On 3/Dec/18 09:56, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
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> The list is made from information provided by ISPs or publicly
> available, so that why there are no many more ISPs (not just in
> Africa, in other countries).
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> I think in Africa, dual-stack is being used up to know as you still
> have sufficient IPv4 addresses … but of course this will change in the
> next few months.
>

I can't speak to other ISP's, but I know that from the last ZAPF meeting
in Cape Town last month, Ben (Workonline) had the whole meeting running
on NAT64/DNS64. I only noticed because my VPN wasn't happy, but all
other things worked perfectly, i.e., e-mail, WhatsApp, Instagram,
iMessage, e.t.c. Most folk didn't even know it was an IPv6-only
conference network.

As SEACOM, we've had NAT64/DNS64 as our transition mechanism since 2014.
We deployed a bunch of translators across the entire backbone, in all of
our major PoP's (Africa and Europe). These are running on Cisco ASR1006
routers, in production for close to 5 years now. But as you mention,
because of the prevalence of IPv4 in Africa, we haven't yet seen
anything pushing us hard to fire up any real traffic toward our
translators. That said, when the day comes, we will be ready.

I am sure Andrew (Liquid) already has a plan, and I'm certain there are
a ton of other ISP's in Africa that either have a plan or are working
toward the same.

Mark.
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