[arin-discuss] ARIN Travel

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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>From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
>[mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of John Curran
>Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:26 AM
>To: G.Hiscott
>Cc: arin-discuss at arin.net
>Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] ARIN Travel
>
>
>At 11:14 AM -0700 11/2/07, G.Hiscott wrote:
>>Does that mean it will help arin to get members converted to IPV6 faster ?
>
>So we've got a global community building products and services
>based on "The Internet", and the majority are aware how the
>Internet and IP protocol suite works but unaware of the chance
>that they will not be able to generally obtain IPv4 address space
>(as it's been in the past) from the registries in 3 or 4 years.
>
>The community that we reach via this mailing list, and the
>various meetings are all aware of this, but wouldn't it be a
>wise idea to raise the possibility to other folks who might be
>basing their future offerings exclusively on IPv4 connected
>Internet users?
>

I actually think that right now ARIN should be working more on
visiting shows that the major networks would have staff attending.
There are still a great many transit providers out there who
are not routing IPv6 at the current time.  There is no point in
getting the customer base stirred up and demanding IPv6 when
it's not available from their network provider, they will just
lose interest in it.

The US Government mandated IPv6 support by next year - 2008 -
to bid on their contracts, I suspect that we are going to see a
lot of transit networks start routing it who haven't been doing so
already, in another 10 months from now, at least in the US, just
because of that mandate.

Ted