Re: IPv6 policy at LACNIC( was: RE: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Policy Proposalfor LACNIC Region

[Carlos Friacas <cfriacas@fccn.pt>]

Hello all,


On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Carlos Morgado wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:02:53PM -0800, Michel Py wrote:
>
> >
> > Bottom line is, it costs less to defragment the IPv4 space than it does
> > to deploy IPv6 (remember that all the apps have to be re-written).

if the apps were correctly writen only the APIs need to be re-written.
there is a 5-star example: gnomemeeting (http://www.gnomemeeting.org)
as far as i was told only 10 lines were changed to enable IPv6 on that
particular app.


> I hear there's 2 shareware programs left, everything else has been adapted
> ;)

nice sense of humour...
that is still a big problem, but unfortunately we are yet to see most of
the ISPs:
+ doing BGP4+ with other ISPs locally (at some IXPs)
+ getting native IPv6 transit from their upstream(s)
  (yes, the *real* problem here is still few carriers having it...)


regards,

./Carlos
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