Re: [nznog] IPv6

At 10:26 17/07/2003 +1200, Nathan Ward wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:04:23 -0400, Joe Abley wrote:

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On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 02:52 Canada/Eastern, Barry Murphy wrote:

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I have ipv6 through freenet and I have a box housed at orcon who peer to ape. Whats involved with the metanet installation on a freebsd box?

Note that the orcon router sitting on the APE will need v6 transport, and routing back to the freenet box, if you want to be able to reach F locally over v6.

Alternatively, I'm /sure/ the community can donate some hardware to put a box /at/ APE. So we aren't reliant on any ISP. And we don't cause any unneeded traffic for them either.

Part of the idea would be to build a native IPv6 network in New Zealand, as such - the ISP's will need to be reasonably heavily involved as they will have issues they will need to sort out. I am a little confused how "having a box sitting at APE" will actually assist toward anything with respect to IPv6 networks in New Zealand. In order to access this box (not using tunnels) one would assume that the link terminating equipment at APE for [insert company name here] would support IPv6 and be able to do peering with another peer on APE, hence negating the requirement for a 'box sitting at ape' all together.. I would assume we could get this done initially with private v6 ranges and then look toward getting a publicly routable range. However, in order to link back into the rest of the world someone would be required to put up bandwidth to do this and as such, it would be unfair to expect them to carry all the costs for everyone (hence a system to apportion cost, i.e - a billing system) I think it is hard enough to just get people to support the idea of IPv6 let alone starting to talk about donating equipment and the like. I think InternetNZ was also looking at putting together a komittee of some form to investigate IPv6 in New Zealand and assist in rolling it out ? possibly this would be a good place to start and get interested (and in some cases not so interested) parties involved. Can anyone comment on where things are with respect to this komittee that was mentioned a while back on NZNOG and how one could express an interest in sitting in on it ? -- Steve.