[59065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Fri Jun 13 10:54:04 2003
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: nick@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:54:01 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1055503000.54378.51.camel@pancake.netability.ie> from "Nick Hilliard" at Jun 13, 2003 12:16:40 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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>
> Andy Dills wrote:
> > Am I the only one that thinks IPv6 is a minimum of ten years out
> > before you see actual non-geek demand?
>
> It will probably happen before that. The Japanese government
> requirement that all businesses be fully ipv6 compliant before 2005 is
> certainly going to have a major impact on vendor ipv6 implementations,
> from the core to the desktop So while you may not get 30Mpps on your
> backbone router, you're probably not going to be stuck with a white
> elephant rate-limited to 200Kpps either. One day, you may even be able
> to run an ipv6-only desktop from vendor M, who knows?
> Nick
I saw a DISA memo yesterday that mandates IPv6 compliance
by 2008.
--bill
