On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:57:29AM +1300, David Robb wrote:
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?
(dragging out my soap box and scatter-shooting) me... i want to keep paying my usual and customary fees for Internet access. If you (smarty-pants ISP) have a cocked up business model that failed to account for upgrade/replacement costs, then you deserve to "bleed-out". IPv6 is/should be transparent to the enduser. Any other approach will result in serious questions about your ability to handle customer relations. wrt native IPv6 transit providers, they do exist and some even have been mentioned in this thread. For giggles, how many folks are taking advantage of the IPv6 enabled exchanges to peer w/ other native IPv6 offering ISPS? --bill