[124483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 100% want IPv6 - Was: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Apr 1 00:14:12 2010
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:13:36 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BB41871.8050608@zill.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/31/2010 08:52 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> We have just (anecdotally, empirically) established earlier in this
> thread, that anything smaller than a mid-sized business, can't even
> *GET* IPv6 easily (at least in the USA); much less care about it.
fwiw, that last time I was at a company that needed a prefix, we wrote
up an addressing plan, applied, received an assignment, payed our money
and were done. if a pool of public addresses are a resource you need to
run your business you can secure it, and it's simpler and dealing with
for example health insurance.
> Talking about a "crystal ball", in my view, is just a lot of hand-waving
> that means "I don't have a real-world example to point to".
>
> Talking about "the Next Big Thing" means that somehow, the NBT will be
> present without any residential or small business broadband users
> partaking in it. Sounds like a pretty small piece of the pie for the NBT...
>
> For the record, I have no dog in this fight; I just think that the
> rhetoric / fanboi-ism / advocacy level is just a little too high -
> emotion rather than reason is taking over in the course of debate, which
> for me at least, is unwelcome.
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick
>
