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RE: IPv6 in Education Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Kim)
Wed Mar 17 16:41:12 2010
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:40:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <87k4tavgxw.fsf@laphroiag.quux.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jens:
There some ISP's trying to push IPv6. Probably not until the masses really =
demand it in someway.
Or if Google pushes it or some well known company. Perhaps maybe an applica=
tion that is IPv6 specific....
NAT's and transition protocols seems to extend the life of IPv4. I'm not ag=
ainst them though=2C they have served
us well....hard to let go of things that worked for you for so many years..=
..
> From: lists@quux.de
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IPv6 in Education Question
> Date: Wed=2C 17 Mar 2010 21:20:11 +0100
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> Todd Christell <tchristell@springnet.net> writes:
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> > So Im giving an introductory talk on IPv6 for a state wide conference
> > for tech coordinators for education. I have the usual catechism of
> > reasons/advantages from the network side but was wondering if there wer=
e
> > any good education specific applications of v6. My major goal is to
> > help them understand the situation so that they can make use of the bas=
e
> > of educators in our state to help spread the work about IPv6.
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> It's not a question of if but when IPv6 will be used on large scale in
> the interned. So=2C form the educational side it's beneficial if students
> learn about IPv6.=20
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> So much for the theory=20
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> I did quite a number of presentations on IPv6 some of them in at
> university in Germany (not as some official talk but some user group /
> some students asked me too). Some quotes:=20
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> "We don't' have time for this."
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> "Well our network equipment is 14 years old=2C we don't have a budget for
> new stuff."
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> "We'll implement IPv6 in 13 years=2C it's when my colleague retires."
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> /me: "Cool. You have IPv6."
> Professor: "I configured the tunnel myself. Our network people don't this=
the
> topic."
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> Jens
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