[96901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue May 29 12:24:31 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0705291425380.11314@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:29:34 -0400
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 2:34 PM +0000 5/29/07, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> > Actual behavior of ISPs will change as they realize even
>> if they're not the first ISP to have to connect customers
>> via IPv6-only, they will be face that situation in time.
>
>i'm not disagreeing or saying that ipv6 won't ever get deployed (or even
>in time for ipv4 exhaustion) but... chicken/egg, sometime soon folks are
>going to have to take it out of hide to start down the v6 path, some one
>is going to have to convince their upper management that they really do
>need to put this 'new service' that 'no one is asking for' and is 'still
>somewhat experimental' (from a hardware/software/OSS perspective atleast)
>onto their production infrastructure that is supporting YMillions of $$.
Chris -
This is not a problem for the user community...
The user community couldn't care less about IPv6.
This is an issue for the ISP community, in that a day
will come where you're going to desperately want to
connect a new customer to the "Internet" via IPv6
and give them a reasonable customer experience.
They're likely to to balk, and may not even have a
full set of applications that work over IPv6, but that's
still not going to matter.
ISP's are going to have to actually *lead* the transition
to IPv6 both in terms of infrastructure and setting
customer expectations.
/John
p.s. It's not the classic chicken/egg situation;
it's much simpler: Look up and see the IPv4
Internet - that's the egg, it's first, and it's falling.
We have to recognize that fact and gentle catch
it, or there just won't be any chicken.
