By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation

Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by dastbe on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:54PM (#14638834)

AWS does support ipv6 everywhere; the problem is that many consumers do not (I can't access ipv6 on my current provider w/o doing work on my side, for example) and so the need for public ipv4 is going to continue for years.

I would be really happy to have only ipv6 addresses in my VPC, as that would make connecting up multiple VPCs much easier since I know their ip space won't overlap.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by lloeki on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:06PM (#14638924)

The situation over here is quite the opposite, if you're using the regular plans of the major ISPs (which is most people) you have IPv6.

Free ADSL, which has been providing IPv6 access via 6rd for like 10 years, even started deployment of IPv6 only DSLAMs in April.

This makes the absence of IPv6 on major platforms and sites very visible. There is no excuse not to have IPv6 today, especially for market leaders, and its lack thereof is definitely a showstopper WRT services we choose to use.

As an anecdote, we have seen some constantly increasing traffic over IPv6 in our logs, and our customers are definitely not on the technical side, very far from it.

http://m.universfreebox.com/article/38742/Free-deploie-ses-p...

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by compuguy on Monday June 26, 2017 @03:34PM (#14639605)

Here in the US, Verizon wireline has been dragging their feet on a IPv6 deployment for years.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by jandrese on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:04PM (#14638902)

That's new. Last time I tried to get an IPv6 address for an EC2 instance it was either impossible or you had to set up this complicated virtual network thing depending on where your EC2 instance was physically hosted.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by neuronexmachina on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:09PM (#14638950)

Yup, they rolled out IPv6 support across several services in January 2017: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ipv6-update-global-supp...

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by dastbe on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:13PM (#14638983)

AWS will give each VPC a /56, and each subnet a /64

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ipv6-support-for-ec2-in...

Again, the thing I would like to see is being able to either peer only ipv6 for VPCs, or have a VPC that is ipv6 only. That to me will greatly increase flexibility and simplicity if I'm ok with an ipv6-only deployment

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