[75195] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Gilbert)
Mon Nov 8 19:47:53 2004
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:45:01 -0500
From: Paul Gilbert <paul@routermanagement.com>
In-reply-to: <20041108164127.A5088@torzimon>
To: 'Nils Ketelsen' <nils.ketelsen@kuehne-nagel.com>, nanog@Merit.edu
Reply-To: paul@routermanagement.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:25:00PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> More to the point, it seems to me the working group is highly
> enterprise focused, and seems to want to give enterprises what
> they (think) they want with little concern for how it impacts the
> global Internet.
Well, thinking about the enterprise for a change might be a good idea,
as the Enterprise markets are the one paying most of the ISPs in the
end. And with the ISP-centric approach of the current address
policies there is absolutely no chance IPv6 will ever make it to the big
market. Snip
You bring up a very good point and one that is often ignored. The
enterprise customers
Do they understand IPv6
Do they want IPv6
Do they need IPv6
Are they writing IPv6 applications
Right now there is no good reason for them to switch to ipv6 and they
certainly aren't writing any apps for it. They are however waiting and
hoping it doesn't happen.
