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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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 <st1:place w:st="on">SLA</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There are not a lot of areas where the
small scale gives advantages, but this is one of them. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:blue'>Best regards,<br>
<u1:PersonName u2:st="on"><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Kevin Kargel</u1:PersonName></st1:PersonName><br>
Polar Communications,<u1:address u2:st="on"><u1:Street u2:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">110 4th Street East</u1:Street></st1:Street>,<u1:City u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Park River</u1:City></st1:City>, <u1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">ND</u1:State></st1:State> <u1:PostalCode u2:st="on"><st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">58270</u1:PostalCode></u1:address></st1:PostalCode></st1:address><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
arin-ppml-bounces@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces@arin.net] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Stacy Hughes<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:39
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ARIN PPML<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [arin-ppml] Ted's Comment
on 2009-2</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=white face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:white;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=white face="Lucida Grande"><span
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size=1 color="#141414" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#141414'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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