[60020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: North America not interested in IP V6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Jul 30 03:11:48 2003
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:11:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <005e01c35668$51efbf80$24e0a8c0@HATMADDER>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Regardless of the content of the above, let me say that with the exception
> of "the academic community" (including those in commercial orgs) no one in
> Europe is interested either.
I think it's a question of price to create the service.
Newer plattforms have built in IPv6 in hardware so performance isn't an
issue, the code base is maturing which is also a very important step
forward.
In a couple of years it won't be so much an issue of "purchasing equipment
that can do IPv6" but more "turning it on" which is a huge difference when
it comes to creating a service and deploying it. When IPv6 is in almost
all newer IOSes and these get phased into production environments, I think
we'll see much more IPv6 than today.
I know that I am not alone in considering IPv6 ability of hardware I am
about to purchase that I believe will be around for 3-5 years.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
