[arin-ppml] Looking at just the pro and con merits of 2009-1review

[Joel Jaeggli]

Lee Dilkie wrote:
> Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> Lee Dilkie wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I really wish I had an ISP that offered native but alas, none
>>> to be found around here.
>>>     
>> Wait, there are no commercial ISPs with a presence in Ottowa that will
>> provide ipv6? That beggars the imagination.
>>
>>   
> Imagine that. And it not for lack of asking but either their upstreams
> don't provide, or there's no demand, or, or ,or

tata, global crossing, probably bell canada should be able to sell you a
circuit in ottowa with v4 and v6 on it. Heck there's v6 passing across
the ottix, so you could show up there and peer or look for a provider
that does, I retrieved their webpage over v6 (via canarie) in point of fact.

> As far as I can tell, everyone is waiting for the ball to drop. Even my
> own company. I have had this project on my plate for 2 years now, ipv6
> enable our applications (at least to the extent that we can claim
> compliance and have a marketing bullet). I've waited and waited but
> something "more important" always come along to bump it. Now, I can't
> disagree, the "more important" project really is important but ipv6
> programming is no small piece of work, I'm looking at several man-years
> to address even one client-server link (requires protocol changes due to
> embedded ip addresses in protocol). I'm concerned that when the ball
> finally does "drop" and we need ipv6 "now", it's only going to signal
> the start of the project and folks are going to be mighty disappointed
> at the date of completion and *then* the fun begins. oh well, fun is fun.
> 
> -lee
>