[124525] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Thu Apr 1 17:26:18 2010
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:25:38 -0700
In-Reply-To: <C3681BC8-E804-4876-BE2D-77A59CEEE91A@delong.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I beg to differ. I know several ISPs that have been quietly putting
> quite
> a bit of engineering resource behind IPv6. The public announcement
> of residential IPv6 trials by Comcast was not the beginning of a
> serious
> commitment to IPv6 by Comcast, but, rather more towards the middle.
> Comcast has had substantial engineering resources on IPv6 for
> several years now.
None of my transit providers currently offer native ipv6 where we are
located. One recent vendor said they could tunnel 6 over 4 but any
network address blocks assigned to that network would change at some
point in the future. In other words, we could do v6 over 4 now but we
would have to renumber later.
What I heard at a recent (within the past six months) conference was
that "there is no customer demand for v6" so it isn't on the immediate
needs list. He said they had a lot of inquiries about v6, but to date
not having native v6 wasn't a deal breaker with anyone.
So my instincts tell me that until not being native v6 capable IS a deal
breaker with potential clients, it isn't really going to go on the front
burner. Many companies operate on the "it isn't a problem until it is a
problem" model.
George
