[182130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Fri Jul 10 17:51:01 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:50:56 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20150710214153.3A3DA32B42B9@rock.dv.isc.org>
Cc: North American Network
Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Limited municipal budgets is all I can say. IPv6 has a cost, and if they ca=
n put it off till later then that's often good politics.=20
-mel via cell
> On Jul 10, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
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> In message <CAL9jLabA5nO6YQ99CRhDgRTHTSB0VgP3GDNeu-VU2-4R_1_pLQ@mail.gmai=
l.com>
> , Christopher Morrow writes:
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>>> I working on a large airport WiFi deployment right now. IPv6 is "allowe=
d =3D
>> for in the future" but not configured in the short term. With less than =
10,=3D
>> 000 ephemeral users, we don't expect users to demand IPv6 until most mob=
ile=3D
>> devices and apps come ready to use IPv6 by default.
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>> 'we don't expect users to demand ipv6'
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>> aside from #nanog folks, who 'demands' ipv6?
>>=20
>> Don't they actually 'demand' "access to content on the internet" ?
>>=20
>> Since you seem to have a greenfield deployment, why NOT just put v6 in
>> place on day0? retrofitting it is surely going to cost time/materials
>> and probably upgrades to gear that could be avoided by doing it in the
>> initial installation, right?
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> +1 and you will most probably see about 50% of the traffic being IPv6 if
> you do so. There is lots of IPv6 capable equipment out there just waitin=
g
> to see a RA.
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> Mark
> --=20
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
