[140435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 foot-dragging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed May 11 10:51:25 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DCA9FAF.70409@l-w.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:50:41 +0200
To: William Astle <lost@l-w.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11 mei 2011, at 16:39, William Astle wrote:
> I think the above two points illustrate precisely why so many networks
> in North America simply cannot deploy IPv6 whether they want to or =
not.
> We simply cannot obtain IPv6 transit from our upstreams. It's just not
> available. And the old line about "vote with your money" doesn't work
> when you have limited choices.
Apparently the need for IPv6 isn't yet high enough to consider adding a =
transit provider. I've seen enough press releases from NTT and HE to =
know there's at least two that can do this out there.
