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Re: Is v6 as important as v4? Of course not [was: IPv6internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering]

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Wed Oct 14 11:50:46 2009

You really can't read, can you?

And I spoke to Martin about it personally. If he's OK with it, perhaps you should clam down?

--
TTFN,
patrick


On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

As for accusations, I challenge you to show where I accused them of
anything.

From: patrick@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:09:58 -0400
Subject: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering
In-Reply-To: <a05493650910120441i27550f17qaa7d3377824afdda@mail.gmail.com >
References: <a05493650910120441i27550f17qaa7d3377824afdda@mail.gmail.com >
Message-ID: <0A37FD5D-D9D1-4D89-AC8A-105612BB8E39@ianai.net>

...

It is sad to see that networks which used to care about connectivity,
peering, latency, etc., when they are small change their mind when
they are "big". The most recent example is Cogent, an open peer who
decided to turn down peers when they reached transit free status.

I never thought HE would be one of those networks.

From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: October 12, 2009 12:49:02 PM EDT
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Subject: Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

To be clear, I was not trying to imply that HE has a closed policy. But I can see how people might think that given my Cogent example. My apologies to HE.

And to be fair, I'm pounding on HE because they've always cared about their customers. I expect Telia to care more about their own ego than their customers' connectivity. So banging on them is nonproductive.


In summary: HE has worked tirelessly and mostly thanklessly to promote v6. They have done more to bring v6 to the forefront than any other network. But at the end of day, despite HE's valiant effort on v6, v6 has all the problems of v4 on the backbone, PLUS growing pains. Which means it is difficult to rely on it, as v4 has enough dangers on its own.

Anyway, I have confidence HE is trying to fix this. But I still think the fact that it happened - whatever the reason - is a black eye for the v6 "Internet", whatever the hell that is.




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