[138234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Graydon)
Tue Mar 1 12:46:44 2011
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:46:01 -1000
From: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC13E34@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/01/2011 07:39 AM, George Bonser wrote:
> Fairly major global network provider likes to call themselves a "Tier
> 1". Asking about native IPv6 in one of their colo facilities in the UK.
> They say their US facilities won't be v6 capable until Q4 2011. The UK
> rep acted like it was the first he'd ever heard of it and implied we
> were the very first to ask for it.
>
> Note to providers: That might have worked a couple of years ago but
> when we hear that today, we know it is false. Please be honest in your
> responses to that question. If you aren't going to deploy it for
> another year or two, just say so. The notion that we are the very first
> ones to ever ask for it from a global provider in a major country is
> just lame.
>
> George
>
>
Having worked both inside and outside the ISP industry, I wouldn't
necessarily trust a salesman to know a DSL from a leased line, let alone
IPv6 vs IPv4, nor to have remembered being asked about it before.
That's stuff for pre-sales engineers to handle, not the salesman.
