You fared better than I did. I also am a Verizon Business customer, and when I called and inquired about ipv6 I was told that they didn't carry that channel. :)
Andrew Fried andrew.fr...@gmail.com On 1/7/14, 11:28 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Christopher Morrow (morrowc.li...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Adam Rothschild >> <a...@latency.net> wrote: >>> I've heard of folk in and around the NYC metro getting set up >>> for v6 by escalating through their commercial account teams, or >>> the field >> >> 'commercial account teams' == business customers? > > As a FIOS business customer, I can say that I've had no progress on > that front, though I've bugged them about it often enough... > Perhaps I shall try again though. I would truely love to hear from > one of these folks in NYC who managed to get it... > >>> implementation is shameful, and should be called out wherever >>> possible. >> >> yes :( it's nice that the Networx contract didn't require any >> ipv6 readiness... > > There's a US government mandate for government public websites to > support IPv6 and quite a few of those do- in some cases through > Networx. I don't recall agencies complaining about the inability to > get IPv6 for public websites via Networx either. Additionally, > most of the services under the Networx contract are more > traditional telecom services which don't particularly care what you > run over them. > > As for having Networx require IPv6 support for all services- some > of us tried, and while a nice idea, I doubt it would have lasted > terribly long post-award even if it had been included for the few > IP-based services which were part of the original contract. Sadly, > having been involved in government contracting, it's amazing what > happens when the vendor says "we want to provide $awesome, but we > need you to waive this *one* little thing" and there isn't a > mandate (afair...) for agencies to run IPv6 internally (tho they're > supposed to be buying devices which *support* it). > > I will say that the more the agencies complain to GSA the highest > the chance of something being done about it. > > Thanks, > > Stephen >
