Ipv6 Routing (from hell)

[Carlos Friacas]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Steve Bertrand wrote:

> I'm sorry if I offended anyone that run ISPs who have investigated the 
> migration. It was not my intention to put down anyone who is actively 
> pursuing implementing IPv6 by any means...
>
> My main point was to get people vocal about it.

s/people/network admins/ ? :-)


> Please understand that I come from a situation that I get no response when I 
> ask about IPv6 for my feed (100Mb fibre) from my upstream. I suspect that in 
> your case anyone who inquires of you, receives at minimum a response back in 
> regards to the request...

Public tendering for connectivity might do the trick. I wouldn't advice 
anyone to exclude any ISP on a tendering specification if no IPv6 is 
doable at this point, but if you specify you are ready to prefer an 
IPv4+IPv6 ISP at 105% cost over an IPv4-only ISP at 100% cost, perhaps 
commercial departments inside ISPs will start to ask internally:
"why the hell don't we provide IPv6?"

Of course the 105%/100% figures should be completely adjusted to any 
context... ;-)

And if a company is not ready to pay a bit more in order to get 2^16 
IPv6 networks instead of some meager set of IPv4 addresses... well... 
the transition will be a lot more messy than it should... ;-)


> Steve

Best Regards,

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