[85505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Wed Oct 12 19:54:34 2005
In-Reply-To: <17229.24648.211976.597638@roam.psg.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:50:26 -0700
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I am told that some of the access providers are starting to deploy in
the US, or at least that's what they tell us. Macs and Linux come
with v6 enabled, and Longhorn will as well. So with any luck we will
squeak through this one.
On Oct 12, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> four years from now, when marissa can't get v4 space from an
> rir/lir and so gets v6 space, she will not be able to use 99%
> of the internet because no significant number of v4 end hosts
> will have bothered to be v6 enabled because there was no
> perceived market for it.
