28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
1:57 a.m.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Keith Davidson wrote:
Notwithstanding, its still pretty hard to find an upstream provider offering end to end IPv6 in or from NZ.
The question which I recall being raised at the last conference is still the same one I have today - if people want IPv6 transit, are they prepared to pay for it? Deplying IPv6 in a carrier network isn't as simple as you might think. The actual addressing itself is the simplest part. Licensing costs, productisation, training, DNS, address management, these are all non trivial things. And the provider is going to want to recoup the costs of as many of these as possible, at least until IPv6 becomes Business As Usual. So, who wants to pay? --David