On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:28:31AM +0100, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html?tw=wn_6techhead
Dave Clark is proposing that the NSF should fund a new demonstration network that implements a fundamentally new architecture at many levels.
I'm tired of the tax money wasted everywhere for "demonstration networks" which cost huge amount of money, have fat pipes for nothing and lots of press coverage (and if interconnected to the DFZ world often introduce routing problems for those who actually try to use IPv6 in production). But still most ISPs don't get native IPv6 service from their v4 upstreams. The real work is done elsewhere. There _are_ commercial ISPs nowadays who have 30Gbps (30, not 3) of native IPv6 bandwidth US-EU and can provide native IPv6 transit throughout Europe and the US. But no press releases. Some talk about deployment, some actually do. Intersection between those camps is relatively small. Best regards, Daniel PS: and it's not an US ISP nor tier 1 :-) -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0