RE: IPv6 Home Use to stimulate deployment over IPv4-NAT

["Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>]

Bound, Jim wrote:

>  
> I am hearing an need for home users for transition.  It could 
> be this is ipv6 wg work but will bounce it off here first.

<SNIP>

> Could I get others opinions and thoughts on this before I and 
> some others jump in here.

Based on your assumptions you would have something similar too:

{ Internet } - { ISP } - <NAT> - { many endusers }

The NAT-box/router will have both have a public IPv4 and IPv6:
 internet side IPv4: 1.2.3.4
 user     side IPv4: 10.0.0.1
 internet side IPv6: 2001:db8::0:1
 user     side IPv6: 2001:db8::1:2

First of all the ISP could choose to simply have all its routers
understand native IPv6. But ofcourse this is a nogo with most
hardware, and as apparently the ISP can't get IPv4 space it prolly
won't have enough cash to get new hardware too.

Thus the cheap alternative: Fix up a Tunnelbroker on the NAT box
(or on a second machine) which can be connected to the public internet
giving it the above 2 IPv6 addresses and one private / 'userside'
IPv4 address. The endusers can the build a tunnel from their 10.0.0.0/24
IPv4 address to the 10.0.0.1 IPv4 address and route their IPv6 traffic
over that.

Ofcourse this would require something automatic for the enduser as not
every enduser is a computer guru. The Freenet6 TSP protocol and others
could be used to complement this. I am currently in the process of
finishing up the autoconfig tool for the SixXS project which allows
a similar concept to work without any user intervention.

Greets,
 Jeroen