Subj : Re: New one
To   : Martin List-Petersen
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Fri Apr 17 2020 15:50:00

-=> On 04-17-20 02:59, Martin List-Petersen wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ML> 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.

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

Yeah, routing 2000::/3 was the way to go, and as you'd suspect, that did work
fine. :)

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

Once my ISP went officially live with native IPv6 in 2011, it was turned on by
default. :)

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

Gotta get in early. :)


.... This is one sick group. I feel that I've finally found my home.
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