[AusNOG] IPv4 Exhaustion, APNIC EC, and James is a nice bloke ; -)

[James Spenceley]

> Regardless:  In my experience, performing an IPv6 implementation on
> an IPv4 network that isn't currently carrying it isn't any harder than
> performing an MPLS implementation on any IPv4 network that isn't
> carrying MPLS.

Agreed.

>
> The issue with IPv6 isn't so much the network (that bit's relatively
> easy), but with the back-end systems.  Billing, provisioning, address
> allocation, security, DNS, load-balancing, etc.

I'd say the problem with V6 is that there isn't much content, plus end  
user CPE is pretty rare :-)

Neither the chicken or the egg seem to be out in front.


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> Mark Newton                               Email:  newton at internode.com.au 
>  (W)

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James