On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:25 +0100, Mat Sharpe wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have any info on IPv6 deployment at the Tier-1 / Tier-1.5 level?

We are multi-homed to both Level3 and Abovenet in the UK and Level3 only in the US.

The big question with IPv6, from a provider perspective, is of course: what kind of address space do you have and if none what kind do you require. Or otherwise put: how do you want to 'multihome' ("oh not that discussion again" ;)

Level3 did have a promising sounding beta program last year but that seems to have stalled. Abovenet apparently have no schedule to deploy v6 at the moment.

I haven't seen a connection request from Level3 towards GRH yet, thus I think it is indeed mostly non-existent (correct me if I am wrong ;). I do hope for them they resolve that sooner or later though.

I would like to be able to v6 enable our network but without a transit provider that’s going to prove a bit tricky.

Try to get native connectivity where possible, when not, you can always throw a tunnel to the upstream. Do try to keep your tunnel to match up with your existing infrastructure as closely as possible. Also see http://ip6.de.easynet.net/ipv6-minimum-peering.txt for more details on that subject. Doc is already becoming of age but works pretty well. Next to that you might want to check out a list like: http://lists.cluenet.de/mailman/listinfo/ipv6-ops which contains a good deal of of the global IPv6 operational folks, usually nice and quiet but when you yell you will get an answer.

Any thoughts appreciated!

Check for yourself, who has at least some connectivity and what kind of routes they are carrying, which can tell things about the connectivity they provide by looking at GRH: http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ I know that a number of folks at least had good experiences with amongst others (alpha order): Cable & Wireless (1273), Easynet (4589), Global Crossing (3549), NTT (2914), Sprint (6175), Tiscali (3257), UPC/Aorta (6830), Verio (2914). Most of these you can see and checkup in GRH. Of course real-life experience can only be told by the folks actually buying their services also a lot depends on where one is located.

P.S. I hope I’m not about to re-start the who is/is not a Tier-1 / Tier-2 argument! :)

Just tie them together into the Internet and all is fine ;) Greets, Jeroen

Hi Mat, I'm not sure what providers are already present in your area, may be will be easier if you mention some of the choices you have. In general I will say that you can rely on companies such as Global Crossing, Teleglobe, NTT/Verio, Tiscali, Sparkle/Seabone, TIWS, OpenTransit, Cable&Wireless, etc. (they are not in any specific preference order, just as they come to my mind right now). But there are many more. I'm actually trying to have a web page with a listing of all the IPv6-ready Telcos and ISPs in the world. Some information is available at http://www.ipv6tf.org/guide/organizations/services/isp.php and for IXs at http://www.ipv6tf.org/guide/organizations/services/ix.php, but not updated at the time being. The updated web page will be ready, hopefully, next week, and I will be happy to get all the people which already provides IPv6 services, contacting me with a URL to a page that describe the available services, so we can make sure they are included in that web page. Thanks in advance for your cooperation on that ! Regards, Jordi

De: Mat Sharpe <mat-pub@qubenet.net> Responder a: <owner-nanog@merit.edu> Fecha: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:25:09 +0100 Para: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu> Asunto: IPv6 Transit?

Hi,

Does anyone have any info on IPv6 deployment at the Tier-1 / Tier-1.5 level?

We are multi-homed to both Level3 and Abovenet in the UK and Level3 only in the US. Level3 did have a promising sounding beta program last year but that seems to have stalled. Abovenet apparently have no schedule to deploy v6 at the moment.

I would like to be able to v6 enable our network but without a transit provider that¹s going to prove a bit tricky.

Any thoughts appreciated!

Cheers, Mat Sharpe Qube Networks Ltd

P.S. I hope I¹m not about to re-start the who is/is not a Tier-1 / Tier-2 argument! :)

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