Bula all,
Geoff Huston made a thought provoking talk about decisions/issues on
IPv6 deployment to the PITA meeting held recently in Honolulu.
Many of the senior executives, org heads from telcos/ISPs from the
Pacific islands were in attendance and they thoroughly enjoyed this.
The presentation can be found at http://www.apnic.net/community/
presentations/other.html He's also written an article that can be
accessed at http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2006-01/ipv6revolution.html
As folks managing the network, care to share your thoughts on IPv6
transition in your islands?
What are the issues though?
I've heard that for some ISPs (in the Pacific) you still hold a lot
of unused IPv4 addresses to even think about IPv6 :)
Or if I'm wrong anyone planning for IPv6 soon?
cheers,
Save
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"IPv6 – Extinction, Evolution or Revolution?
January 2006
Geoff Huston
APNIC
For some years now the general uptake of IPv6 has appeared to be
“just around the corner”. Yet the Internet industry has so far failed
to pick up and run with this message, and it continues to be strongly
reluctant to make any substantial widespread commitment to deploy
IPv6. Some carriers are now making some initial moves in terms off
migrating their internet infrastructure over to a dual protocol
network, but for many others it’s a case of still watching and
waiting for what they think is the optimum time to make a move.
So when should we be deploying IPv6 services? At what point will the
business case for IPv6 have a positive bottom line? It’s a tough
question to answer, and while advice of “sometime, probably sooner
than later” is certainly not wrong, its also entirely unhelpful as
well! "
