misunderstanding scale

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

On Mar 22, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> On 22/03/2014 19:35, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>> CGN also comes with lots of downside that customers are likely to find
>> unpleasant.  For some operators, customer (dis)satisfaction might be the
>> driver that ultimately forces them to deploy IPv6.
> 
> don't believe for a moment that v6 to v4 protocol translation is any less
> ugly than CGN.
> 
> Nick
> 

Well, IMHO, it?s slightly less ugly.

CGN will usually be a second layer of NAT imposed on an already NAT?d connection.

At least with NAT64, you?re usually dealing with a single layer of translation.

Owen