Hi,
In one thread you suddenly gave the news that the Hayai network will be IPv6 right from the start. I remember asking about IPv6 several months ago and had found out that IPv6 in India is a very far away dream. What has changed regarding IPv6 since then that you're rolling out the network IPv6 only (with some transition mechanisms)?
It's not that far away, it just takes a few changes, but the thing with most consumer equipment is that it's not compatible... and rolling out IPv6 to a million customers would be a tough job, I suspect, however, since we're building a brand-new network, we don't have the issue of migration to worry about.
Could you also give some general information about your IPv6 rollout, like the size of the block of addresses that will be given to home customers? Will you be using DHCPv6, PPPoE or some other protocol in the CPE? Today BCP 157 and RFC 6177 came out that obsoleted RFC 3177 which had recommended giving out /48 blocks to everybody.
From memory I think /56 has been popular in Asia-Pacific (/48s popular in the US), but I'm expecting we'll just dish out /64s per the new recommendation. We've got a block of /32 IPv6 addresses which should be enough for 4 /64s for every person in India (which in turn equates to 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses each).
Authentication is a combination of mechanisms which I think is discussed in the authentication thread or the IPv6 thread with the user known as "Torch".
In the FAQ you have said that port blocking will be implemented.
In order to try and stop having spam relays and proxies and whatnot on our network, yeah.
Could you have the list of blocked ports in a page or somewhere that remains current? Can special exceptions be made to have some ports (such as port 25 and 80) opened for specific home customers?
In most cases, no.
Basically, if you absolutely must use your own mail servers (instead of say, ours or a
google one), you should probably use secure smtp on port 465 (assuming you're communicating with an IPv4 server).
IPv6 can't really be that far "anywhere," specially when IPv4 have ended.
Microsoft bought some IPv4 addresses from Nortel (now bankrupt) a few days ago, at over $1 million USD, they are not that freely available anymore.
You can still get them. We're only buying a few thousand, mostly for 6to4 NAT and such.