At 11:35 PM +0930 9/30/07, Mark Prior wrote:
Alas, this particular feature set (functional IPv6 and transition tools) is not just one new protocol feature or option; it's an order of magnitude more complex and will take ISP's months (or even years) to deploy.
These are the same ISPs and vendors that seem to have managed to deploy MPLS in a more rapid fashion.
That's was very different circumstance: "See, if we light up our nationwide and metro wavelengths with MPLS, we can not only run the cool Internet stuff over it, but we can move all the intermarket/interswitch voice trunks over it, and save $$ and will make any investment back real pronto. Yep, I've got the numbers right here. Great, thanks for your help with this!" IPv6 is: "Well, umm, there's this IP assignment team, and ah.. no, I mean Internet Protocol, not the legal department. Yes, those two guys, right across from the abuse desk. Yep, the spam guys. Anyway, they say there's a real issue coming up soon, but we're not really sure when, and what?? Yes, it's likely to be past your tenure here, but still, we need to spend $$ now to be ready for this thing, and we're not really sure what the new architecture is yet. Huh? No, I don't really know what our competitors are doing, but I'm sure that... Okay, yep, I understand. I'll send it all in an email. Who else should I send it to? Hello? Hello? Can you hear me now?" ;-) /John p.s. Apologies in advance to anyone I've worked with, IP registration folks in every ISP, and for anyone who's ad tag line I may have borrowed...