[115180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent input
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Kratzer)
Thu Jun 11 11:10:37 2009
From: Stephen Kratzer <kratzers@pa.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org,
bclark@spectraaccess.com
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:09:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1244732798.4099.1.camel@acer-laptop>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: kratzers@pa.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Perhaps you missed my amendment:
Should have said "And, they have no plans to deploy IPv6 in the immediate
future."
:)
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:06:38 Bret Clark wrote:
> Far different response then whoever quoted..."And, they have no plans to
> support IPv6."
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:03 -0400, Stephen Kratzer wrote:
> > Perhaps you missed my quote:
> >
> > "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it
> > becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our plan
> > for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend money
> > to upgrade a network to IPv6 for no real return on investment."
> >
> > This came rom a contact at Cogent (not sure of the role, probably sales
> > rep).
> >
> > On Thursday 11 June 2009 10:49:13 Bret Clark wrote:
> > > I'm skeptical as to where this info came from since this seems nothing
> > > more then nay-say? if people are going to make grandiose statements
> > > then they should justify them with reputable evidence. I would be
> > > extremely surprised if Cogent engineering isn't working on a IPv6 plan
> > > or doesn't have one already in place.
> > >
> > > Bret
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:37 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> > > > Stephen Kratzer wrote:
> > > > > And, they have no plans to support IPv6.
> > > >
> > > > Ouch!
> > > >
> > > > I hope this is a non-starter for a lot of folks.
> > > >
> > > > Steve
