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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