[afnog] IPv6 transition mechanism used by ISP

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

Spending the money in CGN is wrong.

After that you will need to invest also in buying IPv4 addreses, and that’s a problem in AfriNIC because the lack of inter-RIR policy.

Several service/apps providers, just as OpenDNS, Sony Playstation Network, are well known for including public IPv4 address pools in their black-list once they’re detected behind a CGN, so you end up using all the pools, and at the end, none of your addresses works with those apps.

The cost of not deploying IPv6 *NOW* is lower than waiting for later. You can start deploying IPv6 for new customers at least, and only replace the CPEs when they break or when a new service is deployed, but if you don’t plan ahead, your business gets impacted sooner or later.

This is what ISPs need to understand. So simple. Is not about IPv6, it is about keeping your business (profitable) and opening the doors to new services (IoT, providing security features for users such as home surveillance, etc.).

Some efforts in vCPEs is still being done, I think it may happen, but is not useful if it doesn’t allows routing different VLANs in the home, which is what I’ve seen till now.

If you’ve a nice “responsible” contact in Mikrotik, I’m happy to help …

 

 

De: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
Fecha: lunes, 3 de diciembre de 2018, 11:18
Para: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet at consulintel.es>, Diarmuid O Briain <diarmuid at obriain.com>, UIXP Techies <techies at uixp.co.ug>, <afnog at afnog.org>
Asunto: Re: [afnog] IPv6 transition mechanism used by ISP

 

 

On 3/Dec/18 12:02, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:

Is the ISPs that enable IPv6 the ones that should update the CPE, unless is owned by the user, of course … but in different countries, this works different ways.


Agreed, I'm just talking about the effort.

In theory, the ISP should be the one to get IPv6 support into the home. In practice, the cost of rolling out that out is too onerous for most. If you take most MNO's (in Africa, anyway), it's still cheaper (maybe time, but not money) to spend millions of US$ on CG-NAT than to do roll out a serious IPv6 deployment plan for their network and customers.

vCPE made sense for me for this type of thing, as you can just push out an update and all your customers are on the latest CPE code. Of course, we know where this went.

Ultimately, CPE's that can last years in the home with the same hardware but keep getting new code (a la Mikrotik, e.t.c) are where it's at. We just need to get them to come to party.

Mark.




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