Paul de Weerd wrote: > If your ISP doesn't offer IPv6 connectivity, be sure to ask them. And > don't let them just reply a canned response... > > Make sure to at least put it on their radar.
I changed service plans somewhat recently and posed the IPv6 support question as part of the negotiation. Sure it was play acting, but it got them quite interested. Their first response was "what's that", the second response was "no one uses it". So I pointed to a long list of governments requiring IPv6 and also pointed to a parallel (but not quite competing) network that already had full IPv6 support. That lead to their third response of being very interested. They actually even got back to me later with more info. It also opened an opportunity to highlight (to the three sales kids) the importance of working with modern operating systems, of which one of the examples I named was OpenBSD, rather than the electronic ebola most have encountered. It was probably the capabilities of the modern systems that got them personally interested in answering the question. regards -Lars
