Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

Limited municipal budgets is all I can say. IPv6 has a cost, and if they can put it off till later then that's often 
good politics. 

-mel via cell

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:
>
>
> In message <CAL9jLabA5nO6YQ99CRhDgRTHTSB0VgP3GDNeu-VU2-4R_1_pLQ () mail gmail com>
> , Christopher Morrow writes:
> > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
> > > I working on a large airport WiFi deployment right now. IPv6 is "allowed =
> > for in the future" but not configured in the short term. With less than 10,=
> > 000 ephemeral users, we don't expect users to demand IPv6 until most mobile=
> > devices and apps come ready to use IPv6 by default.
> >
> > 'we don't expect users to demand ipv6'
> >
> > aside from #nanog folks, who 'demands' ipv6?
> >
> > Don't they actually 'demand' "access to content on the internet" ?
> >
> > Since you seem to have a greenfield deployment, why NOT just put v6 in
> > place on day0? retrofitting it is surely going to cost time/materials
> > and probably upgrades to gear that could be avoided by doing it in the
> > initial installation, right?
>
> +1 and you will most probably see about 50% of the traffic being IPv6 if
> you do so.  There is lots of IPv6 capable equipment out there just waiting
> to see a RA.
>
> Mark
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