[ipv6-wg] IPv6 prefix delegation BCOP document - draft v.2 for review.

Jan Zorz - Go6 <jan at go6.si> writes:

Hi,

> Draft version 2 is now available for reading at
> https://sinog.si/docs/draft-IPv6pd-BCOP-v2.pdf

I like but I don't see it happening.

1. Stable Addresses - Data protection people will have a hart attack
   when they read this. As will many customers. Don't get me wrong I
   *do* want a stable prefix at home but many people don't. Changing
   addresses gives them some pseudo anonymity and the warm feeling that
   they are not traceable and secure. 

   And stable addresses are a way to make money. sys4 has a office in
   Munich and VDSL from M-Net. We pay extra for one stable IPv4 address but
   they wont hand out a stable IPv6 prefix. If you want stable v6 you
   have to buy their SDSL products which are way more expensive. We
   don't want to run any service in the office. We just want stable
   addresses for equipment and some training / lab VMs in the office.

2. Prefix length. I totally agree: Handout a /48 or /56. But this doesn't
   happen right now. And I don't think provider who have v6 now wont
   change their ways of doing things. I'm a customer of Kabel Deutschland
   an I can get either DS-Lite with a /64 or a public IPv4 Address (I
   chose the later an tunnel my own IPv6). For some CPEs (provided by
   KDG) they handout a /62. A friend recently told be about another
   provider handing out /57. Unfortunately the competitors are not much
   better.

   Then there are the smalltown providers providing FTTH[1] who think
   that becoming an ISP is easy. They don't become an LIR, they get a
   /2x from their upstream and I guess they wont get much more then a
   /48 *if* they do implement IPv6 (but right now NAT seems to work to
   well and people are happy that they have faster internet then
   before).

Jens

[1] Which is not alwas FTTH. But people know the name from the news.
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