[83169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sat Aug 6 14:07:54 2005
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:06:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <42F3294C.3030103@nosignal.org>
To: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Andy Davidson wrote:
>
> Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > will the v6 access really be enough to require LB's? or are they there for
> > other reasons (global lb for content close to customers, regionalized
> > content) perhaps reasons which would matter 'less' in an initial v6 world
> > where you were getting the lb's fixed by their vendor? (or finding a
> > vendor that supports v6 lb?)
>
---snip lb chatter---
> Until such devices support IPv6, to reiterate Steve's point, it's not an
> option to consider approaching connectivity suppliers with IPv6 enquiries.
>
One hopes for your sake you are poking the vendor for v6 support, poking
hard and often. If the talk of a complete v6 transition for Yahoo-BB in
japan goes over, and they have 'crappy' or 'no' v4 to the users there's
some large number of millions of users disappearing from the v4 network,
hurry up :)
>
> [0] Redline Networks E|X, now owned by Juniper of Borg.
>
> -a
>
