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Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by icehawk on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:05AM (#10835910)
Comcast has spoken a bit about why they're implementing IPv6.

From: http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-54/presentations/IPv6_manageme...

In the control plane, all devices need to be remotely managed, so NAT isn’t going to help us, nor is federated Net 10 islands…

IPv6 is the clear solution for us.

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Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by spacecowboy_lon on Monday January 04, 2016 @12:14PM (#10836804)
So they are managing devices inband as Sir Humphrey might say a "How very courageous"
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Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by X-Istence on Monday January 04, 2016 @03:36PM (#10838358)
The devices are set top boxes, modems and more. Those devices only have a single plug that plugs them into the network, technically it is all inband.

It's only separated in that your cable modem gets a non-routable IPv6 address. It's non-routable within the internet but is a stock standard globally unique IP address. This is used for management purposes.

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