[6bone] report of 6bone planning BOF

Mark Prior mrp@mrp.net
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:17:34 +1030


At 11:18 PM +0100 19/3/03, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>
>> You will discover soon that this will change in the next few
>> months ...
>
>And I guess you are talking about the cost waiver
>that is being proposed ;) But it is still to see
>if that will also make the ISP's actually use it...
>Fortunatly there are a couple of very good
>transition methods which can help out in the
>cases where native IPv6 is still not an option.
>
The router vendors have got to get IPv6 support out in the code releases & platforms the ISPs want to run without requiring them to upgrade the hardware or move to different code streams (with a whole set of new bugs).

Mark.