[139993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SIXXS contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Chown)
Wed Apr 27 08:21:37 2011
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:20:19 +0100
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On 27 Apr 2011, at 08:19, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Andrew Kirch wrote:
>=20
>> I'm not complaining, but I would point out that if these free brokers =
are the public face of IPv6 for many hobbyists (and much of the various =
software run on/over the internet is written by volunteers, and/or given =
away for free), we aren't going to get there. The big deafening silence =
from SIXXS is really unfortunate in that it does actively affect my =
opinion of IPv6, my willingness to spend time implementing it, pestering =
my upstream about it, or having my business give a damn about it. Yes I =
know they're volunteers, but how much does that matter?
>=20
> So you would prefer that they shut down their service rather than =
provide current level of support?
I've had very prompt and good replies from SixXS when I've contacted =
them.
Equally students I know who use HE brokers are very happy with their =
service, e.g. HE have added features in response to feedback.
Tim=
