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Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Feb 9 15:10:37 2011

Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:08:10 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102091459200.15471@murf.icantclick.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org



On 2/9/2011 2:00 PM, david raistrick wrote:
> And at what point during that time did they have any vendor gear they
> could purchase that -would- support v6?   At -best- during the last 5
> years, but I'd put money on that even today they can't purchase gear
> with adequate v6 support.

Supply and demand. There was no demand (most of my vendors didn't get 
any requests/questions concerning IPv6 until roughly 6 months ago). J 
and C have had considerable support (though still a work in progress) 
for some time, though I'd agree that 5 years sounds about right (it 
takes 1 large core network to push C/J into implementing base IPv6, but 
it was originally around that customer's desires and not multipurpose).


Jack


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