[59040] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Jun 12 15:00:00 2003
Reply-To: <deepak@ai.net>
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>,
"David Barak" <thegameiam@yahoo.com>, "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net>,
"Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.Nether.net>
Cc: "Irwin Lazar" <ILazar@burtongroup.com>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:57:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00ba01c33111$b0bcbcb0$01040b0a@force10networks.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Nearly every customer of mine has required IPv6 in their RFPs for over a
> year, but not a single one has turned it on even for testing.
Agreed. Similar experience over here.
> > Once it's a product, I think you'll see some people
> > buying it...
>
> You mean once Windows has it enabled by default, people will
> start using it.
> IMHO, the only chance IPv6 has of widespread US deployment is if it can
> happen without end users knowing they're using IPv6.
Windows customers will not notice it once they can accept DHCP'd IPV6
addresses and their provider does 6to4 mapping and what not.
> Unfortunately vendor C still ships nearly all of its L3 switches and core
> routers with forwarding engines that don't grok IPv6 packets, even if said
> vendor has supported IPv6 in software for several years now.
Vendor C wants you to upgrade to new hardware-level IPV6 ASICs once demand
is high enough. And then a new + verison once you need wirespeed. :)
Deepak Jain
AiNET
