Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The business case for IPv6
The other week I was invited to give a presentation on IPv6 migration scenarios at the Dutch IPv6 summit. IPv6 is alive, somewhat, as I described earlier.
Daniel Karrenberg of RIPE (see his presentation) and I made similar points. Daniel explained that the business difference between an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network is in the cost of acquiring the address space, the cost of designing the network, plus the cost of operating it.
In my talk (see here or here) this type of analysis leads to two important situations where there is a business benefit for IPv6. One is of a large ISP running out of even a full 10.X network. The other is the case of a group of cooperating organizations (think government departments) that want to securely share information systems, a situation I am very familiar with. Coordinating private address space within an ever expanding group or organizations like this is next to impossible. You might be better off migrating your workstations to IPv6, thus simplifying a few layers of network address translation.
Daniel Karrenberg of RIPE (see his presentation) and I made similar points. Daniel explained that the business difference between an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network is in the cost of acquiring the address space, the cost of designing the network, plus the cost of operating it.
In my talk (see here or here) this type of analysis leads to two important situations where there is a business benefit for IPv6. One is of a large ISP running out of even a full 10.X network. The other is the case of a group of cooperating organizations (think government departments) that want to securely share information systems, a situation I am very familiar with. Coordinating private address space within an ever expanding group or organizations like this is next to impossible. You might be better off migrating your workstations to IPv6, thus simplifying a few layers of network address translation.
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You mention in your presentation that one of the steps is to aquire IPv6 address space and you recommend PI. Knowing that there is no PI in the RIPE area (there is in the ARIN area) and there is strong oposition and no consensus what so ever. Would you care to elaborate on that? Don't get me wrong, I would support PI (I don't like the proposal under discussion because it is only a temporary measure).
Marc van Selm
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