Agreed. Often times people forget that budgets aren't unlimited and not everyone is in One Wilshire, 350 Cermak or 60 Hudson. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Baugher" <jason@thebaughers.com> To: "James Jun" <james@towardex.com> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 7:21:05 PM Subject: Re: /27 the new /24 This thread, while originally interesting and helpful, seems to have degraded to a contest to see who can be the most arrogant, condescending and insulting. Congrats. On Oct 8, 2015 6:25 PM, "James Jun" <james@towardex.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 03:45:38PM -0700, Mike wrote:
NO, THERE IS NOT. We operate in rural and underserved areas and WE DO NOT HAVE realistic choices. Can you see me from your ivory tower?
Who is your upstream provider?
I think you're confused on how the IP transit industry works.
If you want choices in your transit providers, you should get a transport circuit (dark, wave or EPL) to a nearby carrier hotel/data center. Once you do that, you will suddenly find that virtually almost everyone in the competitive IP transit market will provide you with dual-stacked IPv4/IPv6 service.
If you are buying DIA circuit from some $isp to your rural location that you call "head-end" and are expecting to receive a competitive service, and support for IPv6, well, then your expectations are either unreasonable, ignorant or both.
Best, James