pTLA request for MICROSOFT - review closes 2 January 2002

[Bob Fink]

Bill,

At 04:20 PM 12/18/2001 -0800, Bill Manning wrote:
>         I would like to see some clarification on which "Microsoft" is making
>the request.  Microsoft Research has been quite active in v6 development over
>the years and has even taken a pro-active stance in recent weeks
>( 2003:: anyone? :) that would argue for caution.  However, it would be highly
>desirable to see Microsoft (MSN, hotmail, et.al.) get connected to the 6bone
>and then we could ask Microsoft research to work within the corporate network
>administration for their IPv6 needs.  IMHO, this would be ideal.

The pTLA application said this is for their corporate net as well as research:

>IPv6 Backbone Services:
>Microsoft Information Technology Group provides enterprise-wide network
>connectivity to Microsoft research and development sites across the
>globe.  Prefixes derived from the pTLA would be used to address sites
>across several different geographic regions and will interconnect
>externally with diverse providers.  In addition, this will serve as
>initial research toward eventual deployment of IPv6 services across
>Microsoft's Internet network properties.

Bob