[137386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 is on the marketers radar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Fri Feb 11 19:58:16 2011
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:36:14 MDT."
<4D55ABCE.7030800@brightok.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:56:59 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <4D55ABCE.7030800@brightok.net>, Jack Bates writes:
> On 2/11/2011 3:31 PM, George Bonser wrote:
> > "IPv6 is foundational to the next-generation Internet, enabling a
> > range of new services and improved user experiences."
> >
> > Apparently they see IPv6 as some "next-generation Internet" thing.
> > It isn't.
>
> Reread what they wrote. IPv6 is "foundational" to the next-generation
> Internet. If it's not, then IETF should have added 96 bits and left the
> rest of it alone.
>
> I can't blame Cisco for making sure how they implement the linksys is
> appropriate for the long term. It's important that they get certain
> things right, as future improvements of the Internet DO depend on IPv6
> being functional.
They have had a #@!@ decade to add IPv6 support. They shouldn't need
anymore time. Part of the reason we are in this mess is their delay
in delivering products.
Mark
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