Subj : Re: New one
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Martin List-Petersen
Date : Fri Apr 17 2020 02:59:15

On 16 Apr 2020, Tony Langdon said the following...
 TL> I was playing with IPv6 around the same time, beating a Linux 2.2 kernel
 TL> into submission (that was a lot of fun and games - one of the big bugs
 TL> being that the default route didn't work!), and using various tunnels. 

Hah .. ah well .. one could route 2000::/3 or 3ffe::/16 for 6bone. There was
always a way :)

 TL> I wnet native in 2011, just before my ISP officially offered IPv6 to its
 TL> customers, as they had an opt in pilot test before then for some time. 
 TL> I had to wait until I purchased a router that supported IPv6.  Been
 TL> running native IPv6 since.

See .. I fixed that differently. I came from a telecoms and ISP background.
Worked as technical manager for my first telco '97 and onwards. So in 2006, I
created my own ISP. By 2008 we offered native IPv6 to our residential
customers and were hosting a SixXS PoP on top of that. We were the first and
only ISP in Ireland to offer residential customers IPv6 by default.

I also claim the fame (infamious) to have been allocated the first PIv6
allocation in the RIPE region. I literally submitted my application during
the meeting at RIPE, when the policy was passed :) It was a step backwards in
IPv6 thinking, but a step forward to bring entities onto IPv6.

-M

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