[137609] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Thu Feb 17 11:36:55 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:35:08 -0800
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From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"John Curran" <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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>=20
> In other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to
> Windows 8 and/or replace her CPE because you couldn't get your act
> together and deploy
> IPv6 - even though her friends at the bridge club who are customers of
> your clued competitor didn't have to do a thing.
Or tell her to run "Windows Update" and get the latest update for her
existing OS which has the patch.
=20
> And then she has to do something *else* 9 months later when you need
to
> deploy IPv6 *anyhow*.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on how it is deployed. That "something
else" might be as simple as "reboot the computer".
>=20
> I encourage my competitors to design their business plans that way. :)
Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting
Class E into general use seems easy enough to do.
