Companies like COMCAST did. They manage the modems over IPv6. They also supported DS-Lite’s development as a transition mechanism so they wouldn’t have to run IPv4 to their customers. They wanted to be able to go IPv6 only. That meant having IPv4 as a service available.
-- Mark Andrews > On 19 Dec 2017, at 06:34, Harald Koch <c...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> On 17 December 2017 at 17:48, Tom Carter <m1enr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> RFC1918 isn't big enough to cover all use cases. Think about a large >> internet service providers. If you have ten million customers, 10.0.0.0/8 >> would be enough to number modems, but what happens when you need to number >> video set top boxes and voice end points? I don't think anyone goes out and >> says "Lets go use someone else's space, because I don't want to use this >> perfectly good private space". >> > > :cough: > > They could use IPv6. I mean, if the mobile phone companies can figure it > out, surely an ISP can... > > -- > Harald
