Re: [nznog] IPv6

At 13:05 17/07/2003 +1200, Nathan Ward wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:42:09 +1200, Steve Phillips wrote:

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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 have a native v6 network. The issue is connecting that to other native v6 networks to get some usage out of it. ISPs sit around talking about doing native v6 end to end. I am proposing that while we wait for that to happen on a large scale, we go and setup a peering/tunnel point for those of us at the end of v4 only networks.

It would be better to pressure your ISP into doing something about IPv6 even if this is simply "please setup a tunnel end point for people to use !" Putting the tunnel endpoint on APE would potentially cause issues (routing could be fun if it was not to have access internationally - and even the "citylink local to NZ" ranges cause problems for the large majority of NZ) As previously stated, I have been looking as the "second step" to putting a local tunnel endpoint in New Zealand somewhere that will be open to people wanting to peer with it via tunnels, this would simply be a normal box housed at some shonky ISP that didn't mind forking out small amounts for international bandwidth and was still connected reasonably well in New Zealand nationally so as not to worry about national capacity. This still does not address the main issue, and that is - ISP's are not moving to IPv6 because /insert latest reason not to here/ Getting native peering would be a good first step toward acceptance and judging community support, end to end connectivity options may be the next and then putting pressure on the likes of Telecom and Telstra to accept routes across their backbones would be the last i assume. but being only a lowly Systems Engineer I am not really in the position to make informed decisions about stuff like that and it may be better to get a komittee to look over it and suggest a road plan going forward. -- Steve.