ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Sat Sep 26 22:56:21 UTC 2015


On 9/24/15 09:59, William Astle wrote:
> On 2015-09-24 10:49, Dovid Bender wrote:
>> The issue now is convincing clients that they need it. The other issue
>> is many software vendors still don't support it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dovid
>
> Actually, the issue now is convincing certain big providers to actually
> make IPv6 service available to their customers in data centres and the
> like across their *whole* networks rather than giving people the
> "there's no demand so we can't justify the cost" run around. (I'm
> looking at you AS701.)
>
> For that matter, it would also help if certain large end user providers
> would make IPv6 available rather than giving a standard "we have no
> information at this time" type response. (I'm looking at you, Shaw.)
>


What's worked for me is not signing or renewing or buying things that 
lack IPv6 support. I realize that may not always be possible but it does 
work better to require it from the sales side than as a technical 
problem to try and solve later.

~Seth



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