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[Kevin Karp]

Geoff

 > Geoff Huston <gih at apnic.net>
 > ... What are we going to do given that noone is doing anything 
remotely serious in IPv6 and the  
 > crunch time of IPv4 address exhaustion is getting ever closer?

Not sure what scale you are using to measure "noone" and "anything 
remotely serious" but our StudentNet subsidiary is certainly trying to 
do something with IPv6. Specifically, we have approximately 5000 school 
students enrolled into our NextMail Collaboration Account program. 
NextMail uses IPv6 technology entirely based on the Try6 and Grow6 
products of IPv6Now.

As a result of this program each school student will receive their own 
allocated IPv6 address and 6in4 tunnel account. As school students are 
involved, we have had to be extremely careful with how this facility is 
established and implemented in conjunction with the schools' IT staff 
and management. At last year's IPv6 summit, Latif Ladid told us he 
believed that this represented the 3rd largest schools education 
implementation in the world (China & Greece being 1st and 2nd 
respectively).

Because of the sensitivities involved with online collaboration between 
school students (Cyber bullying, privacy etc) we can not afford to be 
anything but serious about the manner in which we design and implement 
NextMail. We have been working on these aspects for over 6 months.

I am sure that this project is a mere blip on your scale of measurement. 
Just as the previous entries in this thread have reminisced on the scale 
of activity performed 20 years ago, I am sure that in 20 years time, we 
also will look back on NextMail and realise that your scale measurement 
was indeed the correct one. But to us, right now, it looks very much 
like a mountain of issues.

 > Or do we say goodbye to all this  
 > end-to-end IP stuff and just run client sever over http and forget  
 > than anything else was ever possible?

We are doing our best to identify to the schools involved with NextMail 
all the things possible with the "end-to-end IP stuff". We're happy to 
hear of suggestions and ideas from the participants on this list.

Best Regards

Kevin Karp
StudentNet a subsidiary of PPS Internet
Phone: +61 2 9281 1626
Email: kjk at studentnet.edu.au
Web: http://www.studentnet.com.au