Companies like COMCAST did. They manage the modems over IPv6. They also supported DS-Lite’s development as a transition mechanism so they wouldn’t have to run IPv4 to their customers. They wanted to be able to go IPv6 only. That meant having IPv4 as a service available. -- Mark Andrews
On 19 Dec 2017, at 06:34, Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com> wrote:
On 17 December 2017 at 17:48, Tom Carter <m1enrage@gmail.com> wrote:
RFC1918 isn't big enough to cover all use cases. Think about a large internet service providers. If you have ten million customers, 10.0.0.0/8 would be enough to number modems, but what happens when you need to number video set top boxes and voice end points? I don't think anyone goes out and says "Lets go use someone else's space, because I don't want to use this perfectly good private space".
:cough:
They could use IPv6. I mean, if the mobile phone companies can figure it out, surely an ISP can...
-- Harald