[49688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Readiness for IPV6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Jul 9 09:21:41 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:17:20 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* simon@limmat.switch.ch (Simon Leinen) [Tue 09 Jul 2002, 10:51 CEST]:
> An interesting question is what it would take to support IPv6 on
> appliance-like routers such as IP-over-Cable or -xDSL CPE. In the
> retail space I actually see some interest in running IPv6, because it
> makes it much more feasible to operate a small network at home, and I
> have the impression that home users now lead enterprises in terms of
> IPv6-enabled OS deployment (Windows XP and Linux in particular).
It would also be nice if operators with end users started offering
native multicast. Although the AMS-IX multicast initiative started
off with lots of enthusiasm, two years later it seems to have died
almost completely.
Back to the subject of IPv6: One operator here in The Netherlands (60K+
ADSL customers, I think) operates a tunnel broker for its customers and
hands out a /60 prefix on request. I heard it recently enabled its
400th customer IPv6 tunnel.
-- Niels.
