[85556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Oct 13 20:13:50 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:00:07 -1000."
<17229.41863.627846.668592@roam.psg.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:13:20 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <17229.41863.627846.668592@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>> 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.
>
>that'll be great for the important applications such as p2p file
>sharing. cool!
>
>but, if you read my message, the point is that all the major
>hosted services will not be dual stack. half of them can't even
>provide well-deployed ipv4 service; try united.com.
>
Maybe ISPs should start warning them of what's coming....
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
