[30956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Sat Sep 2 14:18:56 2000
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:17:12 -0400
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To: smd@clock.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, nathan@terminus.com, rmeyer@MHSC.com
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In-Reply-To: <20000902174042Z6809-16180+8@cesium.clock.org>; from smd@clock.org on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:40:32AM -0700
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:40:32AM -0700, smd@clock.org wrote:
> Then ask yourself, as an ISP, what benefit you get from IPv6.
>
> My answers: not a chance, none, and zero, respectively.
At some point, when ARIN just stops issueing IPv4 address space,
I would say it would be in a {I,N}SPs best intrest to switch.
As an ASP, if my uplinks offered ipv6 address space/routing,
I'd get it and start working with it _now_ rather then later.
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Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
