[169479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FIOS IPv6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Feb 27 21:42:13 2014
In-Reply-To: <20140228021808.GU2921@tamriel.snowman.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:41:44 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> I echo the 'good luck' and ditto on the experience.
>
> There's a lot of people anxious to get IPv6 on FIOS, but there seems to
> be precious little movement over there.
>
it really is just an embarrassment :(
perhaps shame will work to motivate them instead?
> * David Hubbard (dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com) wrote:
>> Good luck. We've been bitching at our sales rep for years, as we've add=
ed circuits, and haven't gotten even empty promises; just the same endless =
Verizon BS about "it's being tested in select markets" although no one has =
ever been able to prove that to be the case. You definitely get static IP'=
s on business connections; that's just a matter of how much you pay and how=
many you need.
>>
>> David
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tristan Lear [mailto:trissypissy@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:45 AM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Verizon FIOS IPv6?
>>
>> My strategy, should I remember it tomorrow:
>>
>> We have a business-class FIOS connection where I work and a static IP as=
well. At least three people who work here have FIOS at home. I've read rum=
ors about business class customers who really work their phone sex getting =
native ipv6, and I also heard somethin about static ip's. So I'll try that,=
and also mention that "we're transitioning our employees who remote in fro=
m home to FIOS but we'd like ipv6 for ... VPN purposes, NAT traversal, etc =
..." I mean, that should get them a little wet right?
>>
>> I have a bit of a hairbrained theory that the reason ISP's have stagnate=
d on ipv6 has to do with relationship between capitalism and scarcity. Havi=
ng a limited quantity of anything makes it more valuable. Why wouldn't that=
apply to IP's?
>>
>>
