[112957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: First steps towards v6 support by ATT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Thu Mar 26 21:25:46 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:23:46 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520903261813g84c6a0bo77f9f77a3a223e95@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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>>
>
> yea... maybe they do, I don't see that from my view of 7018's routing
> data (limited as it may be)
Interesting.
>
>>>> http://www.corp.att.com/gov/solution/network_services/data_nw/ipv6/
>>>>
>>>> Looks like they have established a tunnel in the United States perhaps?
>>>>
>>> how did you gather that? Maybe Tom knows more about this and can let
>>> us all know?
>> From:
>>
>> Remote Access Service to IPv6 Internet
>>
>> * Support IPv6 for small (or satellite) locations and individual remote
>> users
>> * Reach a dynamically configurable IPv6 Tunnel Gateway through IPv4 ISPs
>> through fractional T1, DSL or dial-up access
>> * The Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP) will be used to create tunnels to
>> transport IPv6 traffic over an IPv4 network to the gateway
>>
>
> wow, 'tsp'... uhm, what's that I wonder? This:
> http://www.broker.ipv6.ac.uk/download.html
>
> perhaps?? yeek!
Yes looks like. Especially with the mention of DSL/dial up access.
Plus I seem to recall some discussion around the ipv6 mandate having
some language specifying they had to support it transit wise, but not
necessarily be on v6 addresses. [1]
Anyone from .gov with ATT connectivity care to comment (both on the
nature of the native/tunneled v6 offering and the actual requirements of
meeting the mandate)
[1] Language from
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2005/m05-22.pdf
"Meaning the network backbone is either operating a dual stack network
core or it is operating in a pure
IPv6 mode, i.e., IPv6-compliant and configured to carry operational IPv6
traffic."
