> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Barnes [mailto:richard.bar...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 07:47 > To: Kevin Oberman > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials > > What I've heard is that the driver is IPv4 exhaustion: Comcast is > starting to have enough subscribers that it can't address them all out > of 10/8 -- ~millions of subscribers, each with >1 IP address (e.g., > for user data / control of the cable box).
++1, reference: http://www.apricot.net/apricot2006/slides/conf/wednesday/Alain_Durand-Archit ecture-external.ppt /TJ