Indeed, you're right - I had forgotten about things like the NTT deployment, and wasn't thinking so much about the transit carriers [I obviously need to do some reading, as that space is *very* interesting from a technical POV.]. Thanks for the detailed response :) --e On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Bram Dov Abramson wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:10:10 -0500 (EST) From: Bram Dov Abramson <bda@bazu.org> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org, bda@bazu.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] IPv6 (Re: Web 2.0 - "the machine is us?")
<elw@stderr.org>, Thu Feb 15 13:15:46 PST 2007:
I don't know of any non-experimental hosts that are reachable by IPv6.
If someone anecdotally knows of a 'biggie' that is routing/advertising IPv6 services, I'd love to hear about it.
I don't know a great deal about it, but I think IPv6 deployment has been beyond that for a little while now -- somewhere around where the IPv4 backbone was in, say, 1990, i.e. mostly research institutions, with some use beyond that.
This Teleglobe (if it's still branded that way) press release advertising its IPv6 transit service -- a commercial offering -- claims 20 ISP customers and interconnections at a few well-connected Internet exchanges, including AMSIX in Amsterdam, HKIX in Hong Kong, and an Equinix service run from its facilities, in this case in the DC suburbs: <http://www.vsnlinternational.com/news/release-view.asp?d=20050914>.
And the directory for NY6IX, which has been run out of the 60 Hudson St. facility in NY for a while (and is now apparently called "Big APE" [!]), includes a number of Internet transit providers who'd really have to be called "biggies", if anyone is, advertising IPv6 IP addresses for interconnectin within the Big APE service. Besides Teleglobe they include Cable & Wireless, France Telecom, Internet Initiative Japan, Qwest, and Sprint.
All of which is far from wide non-research use, 'course. But it's certainly something. I don't know how updated or used it really gets -- they list only NTT (Japan) as an IPv6ed ISP -- but see also <http://wiki.go6.net/index.php?title=Main_Page#IPv6_Readiness_Status>, I guess. It includes a bunch of IPv6-reachable hosts running Web services (what you were talking about) as opposed to backbones which can route them natively, meaning without IPv4 wrappers on either end (what I've been prattling on about).
cheers Bram _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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