Subj : SixXs stops
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Apr 03 2016 23:24:28

Hello Richard,

On Sunday April 03 2016 20:33, you wrote to me:

 RM>>> I could get it natively, but only at the price of going DS-Lite,
 RM>>> and loosing my public v4 address.
 RM>>> I am not willing to do that.

 MV>> I fully understand.

I fully understand why you do not want to give up your public IPv4 address yet.

 RM> I really do not understand why they do not throw in IPv6 in the mix
 RM> ... But that is how it is :(

I think I can understand it. They are actually thinking ahead. An IPv6 only network is less complicated than a dual stack network. And in the end hat is what we will end up with anyway. So why not go for an IPv6 only core network and as a transtion mechanism offer IPv4 via a tunneling mechanism?

 MV>> But we want full dual stack. For now at least.

 RM> Indeed!

As my fellow countryman, ex fidonet sysop and IPv6 Guru Iljitsch van Beijnum remarked in his essays: the transition will be ugly... :-(

 MV>> As it is, it seems I am one of the few lucky ones that will still
 MV>> get a dual stack connection. Here two major cable companies UPC
 MV>> and Ziggo have done a merger. The continue undert the name of
 MV>> Ziggo. Ipv6 is being rolled out. But here is difference between
 MV>> the region formerly covered by UPC and the region covered by the
 MV>> old Ziggo. Former UPC gets DS-lite, former Ziggo gets dual stack.
 MV>> I am in the old Ziggo region.

 RM> I am at UPC Austria ... this is a DS-Lite only area :(

So let me ask you and think about this carefully: how much would it really hurt you to go DS-Lite? How much do you really need a public IPv4 address? If push comes to shove, how much would you be willing to pay for it?

 MV>> Ziggo has been telling they will roll out IPv6 "later this
 MV>> year" for the last five years. Itseem that now they are actual;ly
 MV>> doing it and I have a little bit of hope that "this year" will
 MV>> actually be 2016.

 RM> I am holding my fingers crossed!

So am I. ;-_)


Cheers, Michiel

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