On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> From: RJ Atkinson <rja.lists@xxxxxxxxx> > >> It seems so incredibly unlikely that end-to-end connectivity (i.e. >> without NAT, NAPT, or other middleboxes) is going to increase in future. > > Indeed. It seems that the likelihood of IPv6 being used ubiquitously to > provide end-end IPv6-IPv6 connectivity, as originally envisioned, is fairly > small; instead, it seems we are headed for a future of various kinds of > lash-ups (e.g. the scenario you posited with content providers, or with IPv6 > being used between the cable modem and some sort of CGN IPv6/IPv4 NAT, with > IPv4 on the other pieces of the path, as one large ISP has proposed). > > The interesting question, of course, is whether (and if so, when) the IETF > will deign to notice this reality - or will it continue to prefer to stick > its collective fingers in its ears and keep going 'neener-neener-neener'. Do you actually have a point to make, Noel, or are you just taking pot shots at IETF again? Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf