Re: Again no multi6 at IETF#56

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Jim;

> >Production level v6 address assignment can begin as soon as
> >we agree on a multihomed solution.
> 
> Production addresses are now being handed out now to ISPs and ISPs to
> end users.

No.

Production means QUANTITY.

> I won't go into the reasons why it is happening but it is and far more
> than most would imagine.

I fully agree with you. It has been and is happening for these 8
years and will continue to be happening for next 8 years.

> The first production use of IPv6 will be
> 3GPP IM subsystem and I believe by this time next year it will exists.

3GPP has nothing to do with the Internet.

The world largest deployment of mobile-capable IPv6 Internet is our
LIN6-based project in Kyoto with hundreds of wireless base stations
(but, with little users, because the base stations are, of course,
IPv4 capable).

> >Is it OK, Jim?
> 
> Multihoming is clearly documented to be a problem area.  Any user I know
> is aware of the problem.  But it is perceived to be an ISP problem
> mostly.

Then, it is a problem of RIRs, collections of ISPs.
problem is solved.

> For those facing this now with some test bed deployment where their

As the problem is scalability, test bed, which means small
scale, deployment is helpless.

> IPv6 deployment will not wait for multi-homing to be solved.

Then, what has been waited for?

> More importantly what I believe will
> bust open is home use with IPv6.

Some may use IPv6 at research labo. Very few at home.

						Masataka Ohta