[101490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 connectivity mandates?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Mon Jan 7 22:10:21 2008
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:41:24 +0100
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801071451250.359@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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Justin M. Streiner wrote:
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> Given all of the discussion about IPv6 on this last over the past=20
> several weeks, I figured I'd chum the waters a bit more :) This is=20
> mainly for people working in colleges and universities, but could apply=
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> to ISP/NSPs as well.
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> Has anyone seen any indication that, given the US government's push to =
> deploy IPv6, they will start (or perhaps they've started already?)=20
> writing mandates for applicant networks to have IPv6 connectivity into =
> the requirements for federally funded grants?
Yes, and the RPF's are downloadable from the various .gov sites. It just =
depends on which market/business/... one is in.
> Is anyone seeing anything similar outside of the United States?
Asian countries do it a lot (India*, Japan, Korea, China from the top of =
my head). Also read up at http://www.ipv6style.jp/en/ for instance which =
carries a lot of actually interesting original articles. Oh and yes,=20
there is reason to learn Japanese: one can actually then keep up with=20
all the real cool new toys on this planet ;)
Greets,
Jeroen
* =3D http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/129729.html
google(ipv6 site:circleid.com) and others
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