North America not interested in IP V6

Tue Jul 29 17:08:06 UTC 2003

So far I have yet to see a mobile network implementing IPv6, though
I haven´t looked closely to the japanese ones. Despite all the hype,
most mobile vendors don´t even have shipping wares that would
do ipv6 in the first place. The usual implementations are ipv4 with
"huge" NAT boxes, quite like many DSL and Cable networks were
(and still are) until ISP´s started to come into their senses and move
to dynamic public ip addresses.

Some ipv6 enabled GSM handsets do exist.

The mobile ip address demand is not going to be too great when
a megabyte in most countries costs $10 to $20 to move around.

Pete

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl G. Jurbala" <daryl at introspect.net>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: RE: North America not interested in IP V6

> The reference to 70% of people in Europe having a web enabled
> phone made me laugh too...  although I guess it could be true
> - my last 3 mobile phones have all had WAP capability, but I
> don't know of anyone that actually uses this feature.

I actually use mine.  But it's behind a proxy, as I suspect nearly every
other provder's WAP gateway is.

Daryl Jurbala