Re: /8 end user assignment?

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Andy Davidson wrote:

> Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > will the v6 access really be enough to require LB's? or are they there for
> > other reasons (global lb for content close to customers, regionalized
> > content) perhaps reasons which would matter 'less' in an initial v6 world
> > where you were getting the lb's fixed by their vendor? (or finding a
> > vendor that supports v6 lb?)

---snip lb chatter---

> Until such devices support IPv6, to reiterate Steve's point, it's not an
> option to consider approaching connectivity suppliers with IPv6 enquiries.

One hopes for your sake you are poking the vendor for v6 support, poking
hard and often. If the talk of a complete v6 transition for Yahoo-BB in
japan goes over, and they have 'crappy' or 'no' v4 to the users there's
some large number of millions of users disappearing from the v4 network,
hurry up :)

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