On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
[...] But when the support people for a fairly well-established telco haven't
even heard of IPv6, it's hard to believe that it's going to be available
anytime soon.
I have another anecdote to relate.
When I contacted the support staff at the moderately sized regional ISP I use
at home, to ask about whether they might move to providing native IPv6 service
instead of their subscribers-only IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel service, the support
person was knowledgeable about IPv6, but unhelpful.
I explained who I am, and what I do at Apple, and tried very hard without
disclosing Apple Confidential information to explain that it's not just a hobby
for me... I need *native* IPv6 into my home in San Francisco for my day job,
and that I want to stay with my current provider rather than move to one of its
competitors, which I named, and which I know to be rolling out native IPv6
service in my area in the immediate future. I hoped that might jog something
loose. I'm quite willing and able to help them conduct a native IPv6 trial.
The support person said, "Let me pass along your information to our chief of
network operations."
A couple days later, I heard back from the support person. "We have no plans
to offer native IPv6."
Meanwhile, 6to4 works fine on their network so long as remote IPv6 destinations
have a working return path route to 2002::/16, i.e. they are complying with
I-D.ietf-v6ops-6to4-advisory now.
--
james woodyatt <jhw(_at_)apple(_dot_)com>
member of technical staff, core os networking
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