[99634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sun Sep 30 11:17:29 2007
In-Reply-To: <46FFAD44.8070104@mrp.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:15:30 -0400
To: Mark Prior <mrp@mrp.net>
From: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 11:35 PM +0930 9/30/07, Mark Prior wrote:
>
>> Alas, this particular feature set (functional IPv6 and transition tools)
>> is not just one new protocol feature or option; it's an order of magnitude
>> more complex and will take ISP's months (or even years) to deploy.
>
>These are the same ISPs and vendors that seem to have managed to deploy
>MPLS in a more rapid fashion.
That's was very different circumstance: "See, if we light up our nationwide
and metro wavelengths with MPLS, we can not only run the cool Internet
stuff over it, but we can move all the intermarket/interswitch voice trunks
over it, and save $$ and will make any investment back real pronto. Yep,
I've got the numbers right here. Great, thanks for your help with this!"
IPv6 is: "Well, umm, there's this IP assignment team, and ah.. no, I mean
Internet Protocol, not the legal department. Yes, those two guys, right across
from the abuse desk. Yep, the spam guys. Anyway, they say there's a real
issue coming up soon, but we're not really sure when, and what?? Yes, it's
likely to be past your tenure here, but still, we need to spend $$ now to be
ready for this thing, and we're not really sure what the new architecture is
yet. Huh? No, I don't really know what our competitors are doing, but I'm
sure that... Okay, yep, I understand. I'll send it all in an email. Who else
should I send it to? Hello? Hello? Can you hear me now?"
;-)
/John
p.s. Apologies in advance to anyone I've worked with, IP registration folks
in every ISP, and for anyone who's ad tag line I may have borrowed...
