[75637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Fri Nov 19 12:42:35 2004
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:39:27 -0500
From: Christian Kuhtz <christian.kuhtz@BELLSOUTH.COM>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200411181529.iAIFTAUm022258@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 11/18/04 10:29 AM, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" =
<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:18:22 EST, Christian Kuhtz said:
>=20
>> So, again, somebody says they're selling it.. And without wanting to =
sound
>> like a flame.. what volume of native, non-tunnel IPv6 traffic do you =
see and
>> what applications is it? Could you throw those of us a bone who are =
still
>> scratching our heads as to what business cases support this? ;)
>=20
> The point is that Randy was wrong when he said there weren't any v6 =
ISPs
> in 2002, because at least some were doing it a year before that.
I understand that, but that wasn't my point.
What business needs are there for IPv6 today (or near future) that would
want somebody to buy a native IPv6 pipe?
=20
> For *THAT* matter, I've heard a lot of people over on the main IETF =
list
> in the last week or so stating that SMTP is only 1-2% of many places' =
total
> bandwidth usage. So why don't we all just cut *THAT* off because =
there's
> no business case to support *THAT* either? :)
Apples and oranges, but a worthy April 1 proposal ;)
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