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Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

  • From: David Barak
  • Date: Thu Jul 26 14:40:08 2007
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--- David Freedman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I dont feel this sort of behaviour is helpful, I can
> understand asking 
> for licensing fees for L2VPN/L3VPN technologies
> since these are products 
> that service providers can levvy a reasonable charge
> for, but to charge 
> for IPv6 routing capability alone, at the time where
> the discussion of 
> which has never been so serious, leaves a bit of a
> bad taste in one's mouth.

Not all equipment vendors do this, and this could be
used as a discriminator between them when selecting
new equipment (or could be a spur toward considering
different platforms when upgrading).

-David Barak

David Barak
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