[arin-ppml] Ted's Comment on 2009-2

[Kevin Kargel]

I am one of those small ISP's.  While I have not completely deployed IPv6
core to edge I am ready to do so in short order.  The hardware upgrades came
rather naturally during regularly scheduled replacement.  Perhaps we have an
advantage because the hardware manufacturer we choose to use is very
pro-active and comes to us IPv6 ready.  

 

The three major items holing us back are transit availability, application
interoperability and content availability.  We soon plan to offer IPv6 to
customers who wish to use it on an experimental basis, they will have to
acknowledge that system changes will necessitate unplanned and unannounced
outages, and that transit is through a tunnel and will not carry any SLA.

 

In my opinion the small ISP's actually have an advantage in the IPv6
adoption.  Small ISP's are far more nimble than the large ISP's who have
less flexibility in infrastructure change and experimentation.  Small ISP's
are used to doing custom configurations for customers with special needs,
whereas the large ISP's must by their nature demand that customers fit in to
an established box, or the large ISP must first go through all the rigmarole
and red tape to create a special box and be prepared to offer it anywhere in
their network for the customer.

 

The nimbleness of small ISP's can, if they choose to take action, allow them
to respond much more quickly with infrastructure changes.  If I need to
upgrade an IOS to adopt a new feature I can often do it on three or four
routers and be good to go.  A large national ISP may need to coordinate the
change on thousands of routers and educate their engineers and techs before
they can implement the change.

 

There are not a lot of areas where the small scale gives advantages, but
this is one of them.  

Best regards,
Kevin Kargel
Polar Communications,110 4th Street East,Park River, ND 58270



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Ted Mittelstaedt

12:25

comment - let's quit dancing around this small/large ISP issue, the heart of
it is that flexibility aside, most smaller ISP's don't have as much money to
put into capital improvements like new routers.  Because of this, most of
them will want to delay purchase of new IPv6-compliant routing equipment as
long as possible to take advantage of falling prices.  Frankly, a surprising
number of small ISP's are almost certainly  buying used routers off -Ebay
(SOMEONE is buying those 7200's that are all over Ebay) so the longer they
can delay the move to IPv6 the less cost it will be for them.

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