[Witarea] Re: [v6ops] Re: Re: How to make an elegant IPv4 outage

Ole Trøan <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:54:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.tsv-area,gmane.ietf.general,gmane.ietf.v6ops
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Tim,
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> Well, that=E2=80=99s 6man, this is v6ops.  If bad operational procedures a=
re followed, we should highlight those with pointers to the good.  Doesn=E2=80=
=99t have to name names I suppose.

You could. But it=E2=80=99s a world of inconsistency. DHCPv6 PD lifetimes wa=
s recommended to mirror the lifetime of the customer contract. But then you g=
ot into issues with state maintenance on intermediate routers, and ended up w=
ith short lifetimes, so RR has no visibility into the actual lifetime of the=
 prefix.=20
Then providers raised the issue of rebalancing customers between eg CMTSs, w=
here maintaining the same prefix has a cost.
And I am sure a desire for tiered products.=20
A combination of ipv6 protocols, business practices and operational reality.=


Ole


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> On 12/06/2026, 10:48, "Ole Tr=C3=B8an" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Perhaps we need to start draft-v6ops-ipv6-dinosaurs and start to name and s=
hame such organisations and what they=E2=80=99re doing wrong=E2=80=A6 polite=
 but objective critique and pointers in the doc to best practice.
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> It may produce a better outcome if we instead focus on fixing the gaps in i=
pv6. =20
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> Ole
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> On 11/06/2026, 21:03, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <[email protected]> wrote=
:
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> Just got off the phone with a very large ISP after a failed attempt to get=
 an IPv6 address.
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> Turns out that I can have IPv6 but only dynamic and only if I am on dynami=
c IPv4. I cannot get IPv6 for my service with static IPv4 addresses.
>=20
> Seems to me that we are still a long way away from being able to shutter I=
Pv4 completely.
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> What I have not yet tried but should is trying to use the IPv6 mapping of m=
y IPv4 addresses.
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Well, that=E2=80=99s 6man, this is v6ops. &nbsp;If bad operational procedure=
s are followed, we should highlight those with pointers to the good. &nbsp;D=
oesn=E2=80=99t have to name names I suppose.</div></div></blockquote><div><b=
r></div><div>You could. But it=E2=80=99s a world of inconsistency. DHCPv6 PD=
 lifetimes was recommended to mirror the lifetime of the customer contract. B=
ut then you got into issues with state maintenance on intermediate routers, a=
nd ended up with short lifetimes, so RR has no visibility into the actual li=
fetime of the prefix.&nbsp;</div><div>Then providers raised the issue of reb=
alancing customers between eg CMTSs, where maintaining the same prefix has a=
 cost.</div><div>And I am sure a desire for tiered products.&nbsp;</div><div=
>A combination of ipv6 protocols, business practices and operational reality=
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Perhaps we need to start draft-v6ops-ipv6-dinosaurs and start to name and sh=
ame such organisations and what they=E2=80=99re doing wrong=E2=80=A6 polite b=
ut objective critique and pointers in the doc to best practice.</div>
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ce a better outcome if we instead focus on fixing the gaps in ipv6. &nbsp;</=
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6, 21:03, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote:</div>
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st got off the phone with a very large ISP after a failed attempt to get an I=
Pv6 address.</div>
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r>
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<div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"direction: ltr; font-size: 9.75pt;">Tu=
rns out that I can have IPv6 but only dynamic and only if I am on dynamic IP=
v4. I cannot get IPv6 for my service with static IPv4 addresses.</div>
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r>
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<div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"direction: ltr; font-size: 9.75pt;">Se=
ems to me that we are still a long way away from being able to shutter IPv4 c=
ompletely.</div>
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r>
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<div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"direction: ltr; font-size: 9.75pt;">Wh=
at I have not yet tried but should is trying to use the IPv6 mapping of my I=
Pv4 addresses.</div>
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