In this week’s IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Scott talk to Cody Christman about managing networks with IPv6 using the critical transition/translation technology NAT64.

Cody is principal network architect at the managed service provider Ensono. He has nearly two decades of work with IPv6 as an expert and advocate—from his role as a director of product engineering at NTT/Verio to his membership on the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force steering committee.

Topics discussed include:

Why overlapping IPv4 addresses are a big driver for using NAT64

Using IPv6 (and NAT64 variant SIIT) to manage an MSP customer’s IPv4 deployments

How SIIT works

The technical debt of IPv4 NAT and how IPv6 re-simplifies networking

How IPv6 can facilitate enterprise mergers and acquisitions (while IPv4 impedes it)

The role NAT64 plays in an IPv6-only future

Thanks for listening!

Show Links:

Ensono

RFC 7952 – IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT) – IETF

RFC 6146 – Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers – IETF

IPv6 Deployment Evolution and IPv6-Only Networks – Cody Christman via LinkedIn

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