[arin-discuss] ARIN Travel

[Robert E. Seastrom]

"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at ipinc.net> writes:

> 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.

Actually, it is quite the opposite.  Providers who survived the bubble
bursting have learned their lesson about the "if you build it they
will come" mentality; they're only setting up network resources in
direct response to customer demands.

> 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.

I suspect that the big networks, who are already on the GSA Schedule,
already have ample v6 resources in play to be able to respond to RFPs
from the Feds...  and for those who don't, well, no amount of
preaching from ARIN is going to fix that.

Outreach properly belongs in the arenas where ARIN is putting it
*right now* - trying to get to the folks who have historically looked
at IP addresses and IP pipe as a bit of a utility, like the water
company...  mostly unlimited supply, and when you turn the faucet it
Just Works.

                                        ---rob