On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Sascha Lenz wrote: > Hi, > > >> Hi all, >> >> I will like to know, from those deploying IPv6 services to residential >> customers, if you are planning to provide static or dynamic IPv6 prefixes. >> >> Just to be clear, I'm for static prefix delegation to residential >> customers, however I heard that some ISPs are doing dynamic delegations, >> the same way as is common today with IPv4. >> >> I don't thin it make sense, as the main reason for doing so in IPv4 was >> address exhaustion and legacy oversubscription models such as PPP/dial-up. > > well, it does make sense for most of the residential customers nowadays, > because > they are indoctrinated with this idea of dynamic+NAT == privacy for over a > decade > now and don't know any better. > IMNSHO, education is always a better alternative than preserving ignorance or worse, mis-information.
> So, i don't think it's a good idea to hand out static prefixes to residential > customers > by default, it might cause pain. > I think it is an excellent idea to do so. I think that any delusions of privacy achieved through dynamic+NAT are exactly that and need to be shattered. The sooner, the better. > The best current practice would be, to default to a dynamic prefix, but > enable your > more advanced customers to change that to a static prefix at will in your > customer > service web-portal or something. > Sounds unnecessarily complicated and with absolutely no benefit whatsoever. > But i have no idea how to sell this to your marketing department. > They again are usually used to sell static IPs for an extra fee, and usually > don't > want to change that with IPv6. That's bullshit for IPv6 of course. > It was mostly bullshit for IPv4. > (Another idea, which i scrapped after thinking about it in depth was, to hand > out > a dynamic P2P prefix (/64) + a /56 (or /48) static on top, so the > customer/CPE could chose > what to use, but that is actually too complicated in the end and would need > support > in the CPE firmware) > By default, we (Hurricane Electric) hand out a static /64 for the tunnel point-to-point and a static /64 for the customer LAN. Upon request we will also issue the customer a static /48 for their LAN structure. Owen
