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

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Someone's been listening:

http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165702734

- ferg

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The only interesting bit in this article is the complete ignorance
regarding Europe.

Regards,
Daniel

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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...

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I know verio does, Sprint I believe also does, and UUNET does... everyone
has restrictions on the service though (native or tunnel'd type
restrictions)

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Christopher L Morrow writes:

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Simon Leinen wrote:

Christopher L Morrow writes:

And I'm sure Sprint and Verio (MCI/Worldcom/UUNET too? I have a

I know verio does, Sprint I believe also does, and UUNET
does... everyone has restrictions on the service though (native or
tunnel'd type restrictions)

For what it's worth, we get IPv6 transit connectivity from all our
upstreams: Global Crossing, TeliaSonera and Level(3). In each case,
IPv6 runs over a short tunnel to a router somewhere in the upstream's
backbone. I assume that's because they either run separate backbones
for IPv4 and IPv6, or because our access routers aren't IPv6-enabled
for some reason.

How much IPv6 traffic (excluding NNTP) do you have compared to IPv4 traffic?