Re: Another driver for v6?

[isabel dias <isabeldias1 () yahoo com>]

question - "beginning a small deployment of IPv6 now
even if its just for internal usage"


Sure! there are plenty of reasons .........most obvious one is to feel confortable about ipv6




--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Steven King <sking () kingrst com> wrote:

> From: Steven King <sking () kingrst com>
> Subject: Re: Another driver for v6?
> To: "Bruce Curtis" <bruce.curtis () ndsu edu>
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:32 PM
> Kind of a side question but we have not implemented IPv6 in
> our network
> yet, nor have we made any plans to do this in the near
> future. Our
> management does not see a need for it as our customer base
> is not
> requesting it at this time.
>
> Does anyone see any benefits to beginning a small
> deployment of IPv6 now
> even if its just for internal usage?
>
> Bruce Curtis wrote:
> > On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
> >
> > > Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > >
> > > > They claim they will deploy IPv6 in their
> worldwide enterprise
> > > > network, do away with central based enterprise
> firewalls and do
> > > > host-to-host IPv6+IPSEC, Active Directory
> based certificates for
> > > > authentication.
> > >
> > > You know that windows 2000 was released with this
> functionality. Its
> > > nothing new and it is not ipv6 specific.
> > >
> > > Who is using it precisely?
> >
> >   Microsoft, on 200,000 computers at the time of the
> paper below.
> >  
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735174.aspx
> >   We have a couple of departments using IPsec here and
> one more
> > seriously looking at it.  (Mainly a matter of finding
> time to test and
> > implement.)
> >
> > Plus there are at least a couple of other
> Universities.
> >
> http://members.microsoft.com/CustomerEvidence/Search/EvidenceDetails.aspx?EvidenceID=14258&LanguageID=1
> >
> https://members.microsoft.com/customerevidence/search/EvidenceDetails.aspx?EvidenceID=14205&LanguageID=1
> >   And I see a City has been added to the list.
> http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000161
> >
> http://www.cu.ipv6tf.org/pdf/v6security_6Sense_Jan2006.pdf
> > ---
> > Bruce Curtis                        
> bruce.curtis () ndsu edu
> > Certified NetAnalyst II                701-231-8527
> > North Dakota State University
>
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> Steve King
>
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