Given all of the discussion about IPv6 on this last over the past several weeks, I figured I'd chum the waters a bit more 
This is mainly for people working in colleges and universities, but could apply to ISP/NSPs as well.
Has anyone seen any indication that, given the US government's push to deploy IPv6, they will start (or perhaps they've started already?) writing mandates for applicant networks to have IPv6 connectivity into the requirements for federally funded grants?
Is anyone seeing anything similar outside of the United States?
Thanks
jms
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
Given all of the discussion about IPv6 on this last over the past several weeks, I figured I'd chum the waters a bit more This is mainly for people working in colleges and universities, but could apply to ISP/NSPs as well.
Has anyone seen any indication that, given the US government's push to deploy IPv6, they will start (or perhaps they've started already?) writing mandates for applicant networks to have IPv6 connectivity into the requirements for federally funded grants?
Yes, and the RPF's are downloadable from the various .gov sites. It just depends on which market/business/... one is in.
Is anyone seeing anything similar outside of the United States?
Asian countries do it a lot (India*, Japan, Korea, China from the top of my head). Also read up at http://www.ipv6style.jp/en/ for instance which carries a lot of actually interesting original articles. Oh and yes, there is reason to learn Japanese: one can actually then keep up with all the real cool new toys on this planet 
Greets,
  Jeroen
* = http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/129729.html
google(ipv6 site:circleid.com) and others
Jeroen Massar wrote:
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
Given all of the discussion about IPv6 on this last over the past
several weeks, I figured I'd chum the waters a bit more This is
mainly for people working in colleges and universities, but could
apply to ISP/NSPs as well.
Has anyone seen any indication that, given the US government's push to
deploy IPv6, they will start (or perhaps they've started already?)
writing mandates for applicant networks to have IPv6 connectivity into
the requirements for federally funded grants?
Yes, and the RPF's are downloadable from the various .gov sites. It just
depends on which market/business/... one is in.
Is anyone seeing anything similar outside of the United States?
Asian countries do it a lot (India*, Japan, Korea, China from the top of
my head). Also read up at http://www.ipv6style.jp/en/ for instance which
carries a lot of actually interesting original articles. Oh and yes,
there is reason to learn Japanese: one can actually then keep up with
all the real cool new toys on this planet
I was just speaking with a family member who works for a large unnamed company that designs and sells telecom equipment in local and foreign markets... (was L****t Technologies and is now A*****l L****t). We were talking a little about IPv6 and he mentioned that the group he was previously in had a requirement by their Japanese clients to have their equipment v6 enabled to be considered at all vs. their competitors' products. It the case was similar in other Asian markets as well, I believe.
I haven't seen any. But we've been doing IPv6 for so long that it wouldn't
make a notice in our network group - people would just check it off as "BTDT",
perhaps after calling our helpdesk and asking "Do we have it" and being told
"Yes".