Questions for an ISP

[Brian E Carpenter]

There was a bunch of questions to ISPs in the survey that led
to RFC6036. Some of them may be out of date, of course.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 2012-05-25 09:54, Elmer Sandro wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> We're about to have a meeting with our ISP regarding their IPv6 Roadmap and products. Can anyone share a few questions I should ask our ISP?
> 
> So far I thought of these:
> 
> *         Roadmap in general
> 
> *         Are there different approaches to different services (Business SDSL, Fiber, MPLS, iBPG, private households etc)
> 
> *         How will IPv6 be implemented (Native IPv6 with Dual-Stack, 6rd or whatever)
> 
> *         Will we be able to register our "own" IPv6 prefix or does the ISP assign one to us (thus forcing a prefix-change when changing ISPs)
> 
> *         What services are planned to run on IPv6
> 
> *         Would they agree to run a proof of concept
> 
> *         How long until their IPv4 addresses are depleted (we tried getting a C-range this year, no luck :))
> 
> *         Will a change of hardware (modems, routers) be necessary or does their current equipment support their new IPv6 services
> 
> *         Short explanation of their IPv6-implementation process works, steps/time necessary
> 
> *         Costs
> 
> 
> I also found these, but can't think of what their answers would imply:
> 
> *         Who do you have peering relationships with?
> 
> *         Are these peer relationships native or tunnelled?
> 
> *         As a customer, can you provide BGP peering to my corporate network?
> 
> *         Compare your IPv6 and IPv4 network designs?
> 
> *         Will my IPv6 traffic be native throughout your entire network or will there be areas of 6to4 tunnelling to overcome current device limitations?
> 
> 
> So if anyone can think of some more out of their experiences with ISPs picking up IPv6, I'd be thankful.
> 
> Regards,
> Sandro
> 
>