[6bone] RE: Content of 6bone digest, Vol 1 #446

[Jeroen Massar]

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Douglas Wade Needham wrote:
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> In a way, the US being the birthplace for the Internet has become a
> major drawback. 

"Yeah, Al Gore invented it!" :)

> There is quite a bit of equipment in North America
> which must be updated to allow us to get IPv6 widely deployed, so I
> think the Pentagon may unfortunately be correct. 8( Add to this the
> fact that companies like MCI/UUNET and others spent quite a bit of
> money for Y2K and do not want to turn around right now to spend more
> on IPv6 to get things converted, and I think we may be 2010 or later
> before IPv4 goes away in the backbone.  Makes for an interesting
> conversation with my friends who are still working over at UUNET and
> AOL.

Well, they do all have IPv6 allocations:

2001:600::/32   EU-UUNET-19990810
3ffe:1100::/24  UUNET-UK/GB 
3ffe:8090::/28  UUNET-US
3ffe:8290::/28  AOL/US

AOL is not visible in the global BGP tables though ;(
Next to that there is quite a number of big American ISP's
that are doing IPv6 and with a couple of very good projects
and a lot of marketing effort from the DoD I think that the
US will start catching up, better late then never.

As for not having IPv6 everywhere yet, that's why there are
quite a number of transition methods and there are even
companies providing special hardware for providing those
services and apparently making money from it ;)
Oh but that one is Canadian, but that is North American too.

IPv4 btw will not go away from the backbone in the coming
40 years at least. There is just too much equipment out there
that is using it. One shouldn't be thinking about converting
to IPv6 either, IPv6 brings one new features and much more
address space and services will start co-existing in both
IPv4 and IPv6 and one day in the future IPv4 will become
used only by a few and it will go away, but not just in
the coming couple of years...

Greets,
 Jeroen

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