[137163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Feb 9 17:51:11 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102091459200.15471@murf.icantclick.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:48:06 -0800
To: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:00 PM, david raistrick wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Jens Link wrote:
>=20
>> Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net> writes:
>>=20
>>> IPv6 for some ISPs will be extraordinarily painful because of legacy
>>> layer 2 gear
>>=20
>> I don't feel sorry for them. We know that IPv6 is coming for how =
long?
>> 15years? 10year? 5years? Well if you only read the mainstream media =
you
>=20
> 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.
>=20
This is largely the result of the fact that they did not demand it from =
their
vendors during that time.
Owen
