Hello Omo, Le 20/04/2017 à 11:45, Omo Oaiya a écrit : > >> On 20 Apr 2017, at 11:28, Willy MANGA <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On universities field where we are involved, from my point of view that >> should even be mandatory. I will continue to say that there are no >> reasons to not use v6 today (not tomorrow). >> > > There are some reasons why v6 cannot be used today. Upstreams who don’t > offer v6 is one. Another is cost to retool and the resulting inertia
Agree but we should continue to push forward. > In AfricaConnect2, and preceding AfricaConnect, v6 was offered from the start > so we will resolve the upstream issue, at least for NRENs and connected > universities I'm currently dealing with my colleagues of higher education in Cameroon here to give v6 prefixes to the universities (on 2c0f:f6a0::/32 block). Hopefully, at least one campus before the end of 2017 will start to use it. >> Concerning MIT statement it depends on where you stand. They will >> migrate completely to v6 because they will not «have to worry about the >> proliferation of smart phones, the Internet of Things, or whatever comes >> next» . Our universities have to follow that path in my humble opinion. > > As you pointed out earlier in the blog, MIT is selling some of their IPv4 > stock to fund this and will complete in 2019 despite these significant > resources. > > I am not saying African universities cannot lead the way, but it takes more > than wishing it. Agree but with more people concerned, >> >> Here in Cameroon, v6 networks work quite well in our networks (Yaounde >> [1],Ngaoundere [2]) and we'll continue to push its development in the >> region. > > > You are having to tunnel via v4. I know a number of universities that ran > such tunnels as far back as 2010. They didn’t see the point in maintaining > them. > You may be able to connect to the v6 Internet this way but you appearing on > it as an American company. I wouldn’t call this working quite well. We can > make it work better. We are no more behind a tunnel :) . That was 1 year ago !! We are using native IPv6 both on our 2 sites. :) . our block : 2001:4268:1a1::/48 Same actions are in the pipe with Gabon actually. -- Willy Ted MANGA Responsable Technique Régional | DACGL https://www.auf.org/bacgl
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