Re: new draft on IPv6 CPE router available for review

[EricLKlein@softhome.net]

Ralph Droms writes: 

> I think Shin is describing not so much a technical problem as an SP  
> business model problem.  If SPs decide to continue the IPv4 practice  of 
> charging by address, subscribers will, naturally, buy one address  and use 
> NAT.  If SPs use a business model based on IETF  recommendations and 
> provide a prefix (shorter than /64) as basic  service (perhaps with 
> variable pricing based on length of prefix?),  there won't be any 
> motivation for NAT. 
Ralph,
If this business model happens then I expect to see some sort of extension 
of the IPv4 NAT models with v6 prefixes, and this will lead to breaking the 
net worse than NAT (and multiple nested NATs) do today.
Eric