I guess Bill but again I argue that customers don't care about IPv6. They want ISPs to continue to build the highway and provide a service that gets them to where they want to go. If ISPs run out of address space, well to a customer that's just poor planning and they'll go somewhere else. I don't think ISPs have to sell IPv6 to customers. Customers will take IPv6 if it gets them where they want to go. I still argue that the fact that their highway is IPv6 should be transparent to the customer. The ISP sells a service and it may or may not include IPv6. The customer wants to buy/sell/surf/etc.... The lower level protocols should be transparent to them. No one sells OSPF, IS-IS, or BGP to a customer either. The customers just don't care. The only thing I can see a customer may care about IPv6 is being able to get a large block of address space but again that's part of a service. <br>
<br>----Cathy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Bill Darte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:BillD@cait.wustl.edu">BillD@cait.wustl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I guess I am still waiting for someone to come up with the killer<br>
application for IPv6. Or a marketing scheme... get this new<br>
service/speed/whatever if you sign up for IPv6. Of course you have to have<br>
IPv6 deployed to sell it as part of a service.<br>
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Seems to me the sell is... the future comes with IPv6...we(as an ISP) offer that service now.. if you want to be part of the future, come with us....<br>
(then a little FUD about what happens if you don't get on board) ;-)<br>
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