[AusNOG] IPv4 Exhaustion date changed to December.

[Karl Kloppenborg]

Hey guys,

Its true, I am in no way running an ISP, however the company I do majority of my work for is certainly far off being IPv6 ready, which to me is a real concern.

I explained to them:
"Its not like come some date next year and suddenly anyone who is still IPv4 will not be connected to the internet, it means that over time our market audience share will be spit, we won't be hitting the full potential we could be doing, more and more users won't be able to access our content."

To the most part they responded with hush hush, its all blown out of proportion and its not worth the outlay at this time.

I find this just a tad bit disheartening..

Karl.


On 21/06/2010, at 16:29, Andrew Cox wrote:

> I don't think Karl is running an ISP to the best of my knowledge. 
> 
> I am, but in a different way to the majority of ISP's on here, which means I'm still awaiting my upstreams to make their IPv6 services production* before I can do so with mine.
> 
> Any adoption is good adoption at this point in time, tunnels or no tunnels. 
> If vendors are going to take this long to upgrade their devices to properly support IPv6 then a tunnelled client is still a great way to get to the IPv6 internet.
> 
> - Andrew
> 
> *IMHO production would be: Supported on helpdesk with guaranteed uptimes and no longer referred to as a "beta service subject to change".
> 
> On 21/06/2010 2:38 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 21/06/2010, at 1:55 PM, Andrew Cox wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd recommend if you want to get some good hands-on time with IPv6 and don't have native connectivity currently: head to he.net and sign up for an allocation there.
>> 
>> Yes, people with a lot of time on their hands are perfectly welcome to do that.
>> 
>> People running ISPs should be doing the legwork to get native IPv6 peering and
>> transit.
>> 
>> The time for piss-farting about with tunnels was 2003.  In 2010 you need
>> to be ready for production.
>> 
>>   - mark
>> 
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