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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>We received our /32 IPv6 block from ARIN awhile back but before we could do anything with it we needed to do some hardware / IOS upgrades on our backbone. We got enough of that finished last week that we decided to “roll out” IPv6 and see how things looked.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After a couple days of trouble shooting why none of the engineers in our data center could reach their Hurricane Electric Tunnel networks at home (and vice versa), I stopped looking at our backbone and started looking at Google.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It appears that the squabble started in 2009 between Cogent and HE is still in progress. I was wondering if anyone on this list had any “inside” information about the problem and whether or not there was an end in sight. It seems to me that having a disconnect between two major players is going to hinder IPv6 adaptation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Thank you,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red'>Kerry L. Kriegel</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Network Operations Engineer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Cyberlynk Network, Inc.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Office: 414-858-9335</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Fax: 414-858-9336</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>