[AusNOG] IPv6 Article on CNN

[Mark Newton]

On 31/05/2010, at 7:10 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

Every conversation I am having with ISP’s ends up sounding doomsday-like because:
   [ blah blah ]

... which reads like list of excuses rather than a list of reasons.

Here's what everyone needs to do:  Mark's 5-point IPv6 migration plan.

   * Come up with an addressing plan to break up your APNIC-allocated prefix
      so that you have sane addresses for IPv6-speaking interfaces and loopbacks.

   * Arrange V6 supply with one transit provider. You only need one to start
     with, you can add more later.

   * Configure IPv6 BGP to that transit provider on one transit edge router.
      Announce your APNIC-allocated prefix to your IPv6 transit provider.
      Hey presto, you're now on the IPv6 internet.

   * Configure IPv6 BGP on one distribution-layer router, and have your
      v6-enabled transit edge router send it a full table (it's only a few thousand
      prefixes)

   * Configure IPv6 BGP on the one access-edge device you need to supply
      IPv6 connectivity to your office workstation.

Then you'll be able to traceroute from your office workstation to anywhere
on the v6 Internet.

You should be able to get all of the above done in one outage window,
but if it makes you more comfortable do it across several sessions.
Customer-visible impact will be zero, because all of the critical changes
you're making affect protocols which none of your customers are running.
So it's a pretty low-impact change, and its cost is pretty minimal because
your equipment already supports v6.

Once you've gone that far, you'll be surprised about how easy it is to
spread IPv6 to the rest of your network.  It's just a question of putting /64's
on internal links and firing up IPv6 BGP sessions.  Plan it like you would
any other change, deploy it like any other capability, and get happy.

Just get the hell on with it already, okay?

Yeesh.

  - mark



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