[35] in SIPB IPv6
Re: IPv6 coordination
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noah Meyerhans)
Thu Aug 1 15:17:31 2002
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:17:21 -0400
From: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@lcs.mit.edu>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipbv6@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <tx18z3q8l9o.fsf@mit.edu>
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:52:03PM -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> d) ipv6-accessible system providing one or more web pages describing
> our services - do we have *any* ipv6 web servers?
debian.ipv6.lcs.mit.edu mirrors Debian GNU/Linux, the info-mac Mac
shareware archive, some IPv6 specific Debian stuff, and (in a couple of
days) the Winsite shareware archive. It is available via IPv6 for http
and ftp.
> 2) ability and intent to provide "production-quality" backbone
> service; depending how much traffic that implies, I'd want to talk
> to jis first (and he's not on this list), but maybe Bill's already
> discussed the matter with him
After seeing some of the other pTLA allocations on the 6bone mailing
list I'd say that this is no trouble for us, regardless of JIS'
involvent. As it is, I consider the server I mentioned above to be
production quality and I consider its IPv6 connectivity to be nearly as
critical as its IPv4 connectivity.
> a) support staff of two (preferably three) persons registered in the
> ipv6-site object info - Bill's the only one I saw in the registry
> when I checked; I might be willing to be a second, if I can get up
> to speed a little more on bgp4+ peering etc
I'd be happy to register as a contact.
> b) common mailbox for support contact; I'm not sure sipbv6 is best
> for both that and local MIT IPv6 interest
I'd tend to agree, since I don't have any affiliation with sipb. On the
other hand, if it works and we can get mail, then why change it?
> 3) be a major provider of Internet service in a region, country, or
> focus of interest; does "MIT community and groupies" count as a
> significant "focus of interest"?
Again, having seen some of the other pTLA allocations, I don't think
this is a problem.
> So what's the benefit of getting a pTLA over our current arrangement?
>
Well, we'd have our own provider-independant address space, right? I've
heard that MERIT is (or already has) discontinued their formal 6bone
project, and that some peers are having a really hard time getting any
help from them when stuff breaks.
noah
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Noah Meyerhans
Computer Resource Services, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
