Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

As I said before:

Host Virtual (vr.org <http://vr.org/>)
Softlayer (softlayer.com <http://softlayer.com/>)
Linode (Linode.com <http://linode.com/>)

All have full dual-stack support.

I’m sure there are others.

Owen

> On May 31, 2015, at 2:49 PM, George, Wes <wesley.george () twcable com> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/31/15, 3:11 PM, "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com> wrote:
>
> > if they said “We have a plan, and it will take X amount of time”, I would
> > respect that.
> >
> > If they said “We have a plan and we’re not sure how long it will take”, I
> > would continue to poke
> > them about sooner is better than later and having a target date helps
> > people to plan.
> >
> > “We don’t think IPv6 matters and we aren’t announcing any plans to get it
> > implemented or any
> > date by which it will be available”, on the other hand, being what they
> > have actually repeatedly
> > said to me until very recently, not so much.
> >
> > Now, they’re saying (essentially) “We think IPv6 might matter, but we
> > aren’t announcing
> > any plans to get it implemented or any date by which it will be
> > available” .  To me, this
> > is still a problematic situation for their customers.
>
> At the risk of feeding the troll...
>
> This isn't just an AWS problem.
>
> "All Compute Engine networks use the IPv4 protocol. Compute Engine
> currently does not support IPv6. However, Google is a major advocate of
> IPv6 and it is an important future direction."
> https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking
>
>
> "The foundational work to enable IPv6 in the Azure environment is well
> underway. However, we are unable to share a date when IPv6 support will be
> generally available at this time."
>
> http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/faq/
>
>
> This is only marginally better, as it acknowledges that it's important,
> but still has no actual committed timeline and doesn't even reference any
> available ELB hacks.
>
> Anyone else want to either name and shame, or highlight cloud providers
> that actually *support* IPv6 as an alternative to these so that one might
> be able to vote with one's wallet?
>
>
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