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Re: IPv6 push doesn't have much pull in U.S

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Sat Jul 16 05:35:17 2005 
On 16-jul-2005, at 1:57, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:


Someone's  been listening:
Listening to what, exactly? Still nonsense about address space distribution.

And I'm sure Sprint and Verio (MCI/Worldcom/UUNET too? I have a tunnel from them in the Netherlands, not sure what they do in the US) are happy to hear that they're not "major U.S. service provider[s]" since none of those offers IPv6, right?

Also, I mostly disagree with their conclusion:

Currently only a handful of U.S. technologists need to worry about IPv6--those that work in the federal government, carriers, researchers and networking vendors. If you're not in one of those categories, the IPv6 bug won't reach you for years to come.

Software vendors need to look at IPv6. The OS and router vendors have their stuff in place. The networks will follow when the time is right, but none of it means anything if applications can't work over IPv6.

I'm not saying everyone has to love IPv6, but please get those pesky facts straight...