Massey University have recently shifted our upstream to Verizon Business. One of the considerations in their selection was that they appeared to be the only transit provider that would offer IPv6. It has turned out that that is only partially true. The connectivity is tunneled, which isn't a big deal and the connectivity is provided on an 'this is experimental and provided primarily for testing purposes' basis. IPv6 is simply bits on the wire in a different format and hence carries no additional cost. In our case the bit count is inflated a little as they have a v4 wrapper but at present, who cares. We have been advised that we are receiving all the routes that VzB have in AsiaPac, a total of 875 prefixes, nothing longer than /32. At present the majority of the destinations favour the NREN (over KAREN) path as opposed to the commodity internet but at least its a start. Our prefix doesn't seem to appear in places like the HE looking glasses so VzB's peering would appear not to be great. If a transit provider isn't able to go native, surely providing tunnels to a suitably connected AS either elsewhere in their own network or to another proovider with whom they peer should be an option. As far as I can see they don't miss out on any revenue for the reasons above and maybe we will see some growth in the deployment of v6 at the edges.