At 9:36 AM -0700 5/29/07, todd glassey wrote: >> >>This is an issue for the ISP community, in that a day >>will come where you're going to desperately want to >>connect a new customer to the "Internet" via IPv6 >>and give them a reasonable customer experience. > >Uhhh OK - but if you built you NAT model right, IPv4 would still suffice for >some time to come... making that "day" likely a long time in the future. The >real issue is ARIN giving away /8's and defending it. No one needs a fully >routable network with a flat addressing scheme these days.
You're going to need to explain the "giving away /8's" statement... What are you referring to? >>They're likely to to balk, and may not even have a >>full set of applications that work over IPv6, but that's >>still not going to matter. > >Uhhh Yes IT is... with your existing customer's this may break the SLA and for >the new Customer's, when they find out you only do new customer's with IPv6 >Services they will simply find another provider. Finding another provider works only for very short time and then the answer becomes the same among providers. >>ISP's are going to have to actually *lead* the transition >>to IPv6 both in terms of infrastructure and setting >>customer expectations. > >Uhh - No... ISP's MUST meet their SLA terms and conditions or they will go out >of business, and that is that. True, I stand corrected. There's nothing wrong with continuing to operate as-is... I had presumed that folks investment model also required demonstrating growth. /John
