On 12 Jan 2004, at 15:13, Paul Robinson wrote:
IPv6 will not take off any time soon because neither the end-user nor
the service provider sees the need. The moment AOL, Wanadoo, Tiscali,
World Online et al shout out "we *need* IPv6" it will happen. Quickly.
Interestingly, whenever we deploy an F root nameserver, the one
operator we can absolutely rely on to do IPv6 peering with us is
Tiscali.
And out of curiosity, how many people here have migrated their entire
network to IPv6 already to set a good example and show how it's done?
Yes, thought so.
AS 3557 been routing both native v6 and v4 for some time now, and most
of the content we host is served over both. AS3557 operates over three
sites in California with cisco and Juniper routers; we're not big, but
we're maybe a microcosm of a larger backbone/transit provider network.
The operational cost of supporting both v4 and v6 from the network
perspective not great, based on our experience (although the support
load for v6 clients to content hosted in our network is currently much
lower than for v4 clients, as you'd expect).
I'd be very happy to share more details about what we're running with
people who have interest.
Joe