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Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Nov 27 15:41:48 2012

To: mike <mike@mtcc.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:21:26 -0800."
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:41:13 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


In message <50B512B6.1010701@mtcc.com>, mike writes:
> On 11/26/12 9:32 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> >
> > The main problem with IPv6 only is that most app developers (most programme
> rs totally) do not really have access to this, so no testing is being done.
> >
> This is a point that is probably more significant than is appreciated. If the
>  app,
> IT, and networking ecosystem don't even have access to ipv6 to play around wi
> th,
> you can be guaranteed that they are going to be hesitant about lighting v6 up
> in real life.
> 
> Mike

I've had IPv6 for nearly a decade with no help from my ISP.  I
needed it to do IPv6 developement.  It isn't hard to get IPv6 if
you need it.

Mark
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