[137218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 10 01:29:51 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <018201cbc8e9$3b641120$b22c3360$@iname.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:26:00 -0800
To: frnkblk@iname.com
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The problem is conversations like this:
AT&T Customer Service: "AT&T uVerse, how can I help you?"
Customer: "Yes, I have uVerse service and I'd like to get IPv6."
AT&T Customer Service: "I pea vee what? Is this a prank call?"
Owen
On Feb 9, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean -- once the ISP identifies CPE that works on
> their network, couldn't early adopters who are interested in the technology
> be pointed to a short list?
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cutler James R [mailto:james.cutler@consultant.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 5:00 PM
> To: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6
>
> All this talk about CPE is wasted until folks like ATT have someone on the
> retail interface (store, phone, or, web) who even knows what is this "IPv6"
> thing. Exploring this issue with DSL providers and Uverse is like that old
> exercise with combat boots. It feels much better when I stop.
>
> James R. Cutler
> james.cutler@consultant.com
>
> My ISP can't answer the question.
>
>
