From: Alastair Johnson Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:09 a.m. To: Nathan Ward Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] IPv4 Exhaustion [...]
I believe the outcome of Dean's comments were, "Nobody really uses it, there's no real demand for it, why bother?" or to that affect. I'm sure he'll jump in and speak for himself though ;).... if he hasn't had his silence bought by beer.
When soliciting people to speak on v6, Donald found it extremely hard to find anyone with a real, useful, practical story to talk about. Marketing, yes. "We looked at it once", yes. But that was it.
That wasn't quite it. There was also "We're a university Computer Science department, and we're running dual stacks." The thing I couldn't find was anyone using IPv6 for any reason other than for the sake of running IPv6. (Which I consider a perfectly good reason, if you're a Computer Science department.) If there's anyone doing that who might be willing to speak at NZNOG 2007 in February ... And as was pointed out at this year's conference, you can run IPv6 across a carrier network which doesn't itself do anything to support IPv6. One way of doing that is with a layer two service. - Donald Neal Donald Neal |"I don't have a computer. I'm Support Engineer |like Wimbledon's equivalent of NGN Operations |the Amish." - Andy Hamilton Integration & Services Division +------------------------------- Alcatel NZ Ltd - Telecom's network operations manager This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002.