Hi <snip> Verizon claims to have plans - but they have a prefix but have never announced or given solid details of their plans. </snip>
UUNET SA's first tests started in 2002 already. In fact, in almost all the presentations at the recent AfriNIC meeting in Durban, the traceroute6's people were doing was going via the UUNET (now VB) IPv6 tunnel brokers. At one stage, if you did a google for "UUNET IPv6" the very first hit you'd find was a mail from myself to a public list, stating that we were giving away free IPv6 transit to anyone who wanted it, primarily via tunnels, to foster growth. We had better reacability via V6 than V4 even. If you google hard enough, perhaps including '6bone' or if Sixx still has it up (there was a .uk university that also kept registry info) you'll even find registry info for each tunnel and /48. UUNET SA and IS were doing native V6 peering @ JINX a number of years ago already. The problem you'll find getting info on advertised prefixes, is due to the migration from ARIN/RIPE to AfriNIC, not to mention what we (and others) were doing before we had our own space. We first took space from our brethren in the EU, then got 2001:588::/32 from ARIN, and then that got migrated when AfriNIC came into existence. 588 was most definitely routed and globally reachable. <snip> Neotel are not announcing their prefix - I find this most disturbing since they have built their network very recently, it should have been fairly easy to factor v6 in and run a dual stack immediately. They may or may not be doing this, however they do not make mention of anything </snip> Unofficially, it has been part of the plan since the earliest designs. Keep in mind that with a startup this size, concentrating on building services that actually generate revenue and appease customers who're desperate for those services could in the short term be wiser than the huge operational change required for IPv6. It's easy for us to figure out because we've made the time. Try explaining to the person who answers a support call, who's more than likely never understood V4 properly to begin with, how V6 works. You'll hear more from us when we have more to say about the matter (I'm definitely not speaking on behalf of Neotel) but I can say there is a plan, and it's being worked on. Regards --Rob Note Information about Neotel directors and registration number is available at http://www.neotel.co.za/neotel/view/neotel/en/page5052 A disclaimer relating to the above email is available at http://www.neotel.co.za/neotel/view/neotel/en/page5051 _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
