Hi Irwin, On Tue, 10 June 2003 08:39:48 -0600, Irwin Lazar wrote:
Excuse the off-topic question, but does anyone know if there is some sort of list anywhere of service providers who are running IPv6 in a production capacity, either to tunnel IPv4 or to offer native IPv6 services? I'm not looking for test or research networks but rather a list of IPv6 networks that are actually carrying customer traffic.
funny you're asking today. Some hours ago I was browsing www.sinet.ad.jp and while I did not understand a word but the English! button there was a text saying I was accessing that page with IPv6, and it just worked and v6 was in no way slower at all than IPv4 when I actually compared these. It's nice that it's just working fine your applications are ready for it. That being said, the network I work with has IPv6 customers (natively) and is actually doing transit for some other networks in Europe and also in the US to help IPv6 to spread quicker. It's native IPv6 on all core nodes at the moment and we only have local tunnels in Europe where nothing else would work. Cool thing is 90% of all European exchanges are already offering IPv6 services, and in the US of course Equinix does IPv6 as of late, as does Telehouse and PAIX. So it is easy to get started with IPv6 if you are at one of these exchanges. I'm happy enough more and more IPv6 network get the hang of not simply (re-) announcing the full table but only their own routes, asking their upstream provider to do IPv6 upstream for them. I may not want to receive the full table in Europe by someone who has tunnels on a router where I am native to the US. Regards, Alexander PS: AS-TISCALI-V6PEERS in RIPE, if anyone cares, or route-server.ip6.tiscali.net ;-) -- Alexander Koch <koch@tiscali.net> / ako4-ripe IP Engineering, Tiscali International Network Robert-Bosch-Strasse 32, D-63303 Dreieich, Germany Phone +49 6103 916 480, Fax +49 6103 916 464