----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Huff" <[email protected]>
> It really is a different universe for University/ISP versus corporate > networks. Neither is wrong or right, but both have different needs. My > complaint is that my sense is that Ipv6 was designed and favors the > ISP environment rather than corporate networks. > > A corporate network really does want to ignore next year's new hot > protocol unless it makes business sense to support it. There may be > regulatory reasons to block it (we are required to archive all email > and instant messages) or management may decide it's a waste of time to > support or management may feel it's a waste of people's work time to > use. Obviously as a end-user with residential FTTH, I want something > completely different from my ISP. To steal some telco terminology, and tie into my previous reply to Valdis, *what is the demarcation point*? In most cases, it's the edge router. In .edu, it's generally a departmental or resnet router, or even closer to the end workstations than that. But inside the demarc, policy and engineering may -- and nearly always will -- hew to different standards. Cheers, -- jra
