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draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-01. Jason Weil, Victor Kuarsingh, Chris Donley, Christopher Liljenstolpe, Marla Azinger. Underlying Drivers.
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draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-01 • Jason Weil, Victor Kuarsingh, Chris Donley, Christopher Liljenstolpe, Marla Azinger
Underlying Drivers • In the IPv4 to IPv6 transition period, end-user SPs will have to support heritage IPv4 customer end devices (think slingboxes, game consoles, SNMP managed toasters, etc.) • Contrary to popular belief, operators don’t like blowing up customers’ services on purpose - we do it well enough by accident, therefore we need to support those devices • IVI, DSlite, etc. could support those heritage devices, but require CPE / RG changes - and those devices are just now starting to arrive in the market.
But it’s NAT.... • For many of the carriers represented here (and others), NAT444 is the least disruptive way of managing those heritage devices during the transition. • Yea, we know, trust us, if there was another path, we wouldn’t be inflicting this pain on ourselves.... • As soon as possible, we want that NAT gone as well, but millions (or tens of millions) of CPE fleet changes takes time.
What do we need? • A re-useable address block (/10 is proposed) to allow the CPE to CGN network to be deconflicted with the customers’ networks. • Best place to assign from - IANA. • Can be discontiguous, but would prefer not.
Use and Constraints • Used for any transition mechanism • Limited to use by infrastructure providers - we know other users will poach it, • but people that do will be “off the reservation” • no default or example configs, no end-user documentation mentioning it, etc. will limit that poaching to “knowledgeable” users.
Why longer than a /8 • Pragmatism • Limit the impact on the remaining pool • Some operators need multiple /8’s, some need one /8, some less. That means that some operators will have to have pools of NAT. • Yes, we know it’s painful, refer to slide 3