Re: IPv6 and AfNOG

[Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot at xs4all.nl>]

Thanks for the kind words. We're celebrating the last few hours
as instuctors together; most are leaving in a few hours or tomorrow..

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:32:46 +0200  antonio at nambu.uem.mz wrote:
> Has there been any IPv6 discussed? I think it should start being 
> introduced since there is now a substantial IPv6 backbone 
> worldwide it seems....

From what I can tell there are still significant problems building
(IPv4) infrastructure in Africa: routing, services etc
These problems affect the current operational Internet infrastructure
in Africa: this is what needs to be addressed, and that's what
we did.

There is no significant use/deployment of IPv6 worldwide at this time;
there is a lot of PR smoke from the IPv6 croud but no real use
in the Internet at-large today.

If we would do IPv6 stuff it would be at a cost of some other topics 
we are currently teaching. I'm not in favor of that at this point.
IPv6 doesn't solve the problems IPv4 has; IPv6 is a solution,
but it's a solution looking for a problem.
I see no reason to push it on the African continent at this time.

As an experiment, I did set up IPv6 connectivity during the event;
it has not see any usage at all. I don't think IPv6 is worth 
expensive AfNOG time at this moment.

Geert Jan


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