RE: Again no multi6 at IETF#56

["Bound, Jim" <Jim.Bound@hp.com>]

Masataka,

 
> > Production addresses are now being handed out now to ISPs 
> and ISPs to 
> > end users.
> 
> No.
> 
> Production means QUANTITY.

Production to me means USE.

> 
> > 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.

Yes it does.  It is doing it in baby steps with IM system.

> 
> 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).

Yes.  But that will change.  I believe this will overrule 3GPP too.

> 
> > >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.

But the deployment will not stop nor does it have to thusb far.

> 
> > 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.

Not clear to me this is true.

> 
> > 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.

I believe that will change and maybe in the U.S. first.

/jim
> 
> 						Masataka Ohta
>