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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, CARVER, PAUL <pc2929 at att.com> wrote:
> Collins, Sean wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:06:06AM EDT, Xu Han Peng wrote:
>>> I would like to request one Juno Spec freeze exception for "Support Stateful
>>> and Stateless DHCPv6 by dnsmasq" BP.
>>>
>>> The spec is under review:
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/102411/
>>>
>>> Code change for this BP is submitted as well for a while:
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/106299/
>
>>I'd like to +1 this request, if this work landed in Juno, this would
>>mean Neutron would have 100% support for all IPv6 subnet attribute
>>settings, since slaac support landed in J-2.
>
> +1 on this from me too. It's getting more and more difficult to keep
> claiming OpenStack will have IPv6 "any day now" and not having it
> in Juno will hurt credibility a lot.
>
> IPv4 address space is basically gone. AT&T has a fair amount of it
> but even we're feeling the pinch. A lot of companies have it worse.
> NAT is a mediocre stop-gap at best.
> We've been running IPv6 in production for well over a year.
>
> Our pre-OpenStack environments support IPv6 where needed
> even though we have a lot of IPv4 running where we aren't feeling
> immediate pressure. We're having to turn internal applications away
> from our OpenStack based cloud because they require IPv6 and we
> can't provide it.
>
> We're actively searching for workarounds but none of them are
> attractive.
>
I've given a spec exception to this, and targeted this work at Juno-3
as medium priority. Given that at the start of Juno we agreed to get
to IPV6 parity in Juno, this one falls into the community work area
for exceptions.

Thanks,
Kyle

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