[ipv6-wg] New version (or followup) of RIPE-501 document...

Lack of IPv6 support in some LB products has nothing to do with orthodox beliefs in purity of NAT-less IPv6 world and all to do with the vendors' decisions to cut hardware costs by supporting only 32-bit addresses in their hardware implementation (if you have a software-only LB that still doesn't support IPv6 today, please let me know ;).

And of course some of us were stupid enough (or trusting the vendor, which is the same thing) not to check whether the appliance we bought a few years ago will ever support IPv6.

Ivan

> > Getting more and more off-topic, but regardless of what purists might
> think, load balancing is a crucial function (until TCP stack and/or socket
> API get fixed - read: not likely) and at least some of them do and will
> use some sort of NAT to do their job.
> 
> I think this is the key point.  While providers are not putting up content
> on IPv6 for this reason, it is an issue.
> 
> Tim