Re: [Softwires] [BEHAVE] Last Call: <draft-ietf-behave-v4v6-bih-06.txt> (Dual Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-Host" (BIH)) to Proposed Standard

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Mark Townsley <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>> +1 ... since the alternative is that apps that require ipv4 sockets and
>>> pass ipv4 literals are stranded on ipv6 only networks.
>>>
>>> Running code on the n900 shows that nat464 provides real user and
>>> network benefit
>
> Frankly, I preferred it when you were running IPv6-only without BIH on your trial, providing pressure to get rid of all those stranded literals and pushing apps to open ipv6 sockets :-/
>
> - Mark

We're still doing that, and IPv6-only is still my philosophical
preference and that is how we are launching the IPv6 + NAT64/DNS64
service into the production mobile network (real soon now).  No change
in that path.

But some "power users" wanted their IPv4-only applications like Skype
to work so they coded a NAT46 work-around for the N900.  It is clever,
it works.

Their process of feeling the pain of a very few pesky IPv4-only apps
and working around it is all documented here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=60320

Running NAT46 code here: http://code.google.com/p/n900ipv6/wiki/Nat64D

In the end (as well as IPv6-only near term in mobile), IP version
agnostic apps will prove to be more reliable and therefore will get
more market share.

Cameron
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