[30963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Sat Sep 2 21:19:28 2000
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:17:42 -0400
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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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:
> Ask yourself, as an ISP, how much more you are willing to pay your
> transit providers for IPv4 + IPv6 transit, and how you are going
> to get the money for that and for the deployment/retraining costs.
>
> Then ask yourself, as an ISP, what benefit you get from IPv6.
As yourself, as an ISP if you can afford not to be testing
IPv6 today.
I don't think it's ready for deployment on any wide scale,
due to a number of factors. However, I do believe it will happen,
and sooner rather then later, due to the demand for addresses. ISP's
should not be offering it as a service yet, or charging extra for it,
but they better be working on figuring out how it works, so when the
day comes they can convert quickly.
--
Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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