[LINK] Clth IPv6 Strategy: Probably, Some Day, Not Soon

[Glen Turner]

Hi Roger,

My main point at the IPv6 Forum is that it is the equipment
purchased today that is going to be in your network when IPv4
address space is exhausted. This implies that the IPv6 and NAT
implementations and road maps for that equipment should be
examined.

My warning was that my experience has been that vendors in
some markets claiming "IPv6 support" are currently more
interested in box ticking than in shipping functioning and
inter-working components. This unnecessarily complicates the
examination of equipment for use in a IPv6 network.

Note that AARNet, an early adopter of IPv6, is actually less
threatened by IPv4 exhaustion than other ISPs: our customers
traditionally have a great deal of address space, whereas
most ISPs need to provide their customers with address space.

AARNet's main reason for supporting IPv6 is simply that our
customers demand it.  In the past this demand has mainly come
from academics in Computer Science doing reseach in data
networks.  In the recent few months demand has appeared from
the IT areas of universities which realise that support for
IPv6 is going to be required and wish to implement that in
some planned fashion, well before any panic around IPv4
address space exhaustion.

Best wishes,
Glen

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Glen Turner   <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/>
Tel: 0416 295 857 or +61 416 295 857