[138250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Bertoch)
Tue Mar 1 20:47:15 2011
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:42:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason Bertoch <jason@i6ix.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC13E4B@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
>
> I could buy that if it weren't for the fact that it took two days to
> come back with that answer. An off the cuff "wow, nobody has ever
> asked me that before, I need to check on it" would have been
> understandable for a new rep. Two days later coming back with "gee, we
> really haven't had anyone ask about that before" is bogus.
>
> I am not trying to beat anyone up here, the point is a general one for
> the providers out there. If you can't offer v6, say so, don't try to
> dance around it and pretend that customer is the only one on the
> planet with a migration plan because we know better.
At this point, I'd even settle for a lie from one of my upstreams. I've asked the local tech folks a couple of times over the last year or so, on top of a request to our sales rep, without even a single response to the question of "do you support v6 yet and, if not, what's your timeline?".
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/Jason
