[85555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Oct 13 18:58:15 2005
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:55:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <1129227783.2023.10.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:05 -0700, Peter Lothberg wrote:
>
> > Is there anyone who can talk to it using IPv6 on the Nanog list?
> >
> > (Time20.Stupi.SE, 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020)
>
> As a certain "Tier 1" still uses a mesh of tunnels and uses Viagenie in
> Canada as their transit provider latency to the above IP is in the area
> of 300ms, going transatlantic twice. IPv4 latency is only 66ms though.
> I do hope that some "Tier 1's" get their act together and start doing
> native IPv6. I already once suggested upgrading their hardware to
> them ;)
I also presume you sent them a check and showed them the business case for
the upgrade? No large provider is going to upgrade anything without a
business reason. Oh, and some parts, critical parts even, of v6 are still
'broken'...
