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RE: ocean: do not boil



  > I mostly agree.
  > 
  > - I think it's not too hard to add magic translating routers (or
  >   whatever) that let IPv4-only boxes at an edge site speak a limited
  >   form of IPv6 as well (been there, done that, at the detail level
  >   it's no worse than IPv4 NAPT and in some ways it's not as bad).
  > 
  > - The exactly parallel case of IPv6-only boxes at an edge 
  > site is not
  >   very hard either, but it's also not very interesting, since
  >   deploying small IPv6-only edge sites onto a dual-service 
  > network is
  >   not likely to be a particularly useful thing to do any time soon.
  > 
  > - The interesting IPv6-only translation case is a big 
  > IPv6-only cloud,
  >   and that one -is- hard, because the translators don't scale well.

=> Agreed. But why would they scale well for a large v4 cloud
if v4 NATs are used?

Hesham