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by Fredy Künzler

Notes about the IPv6-only hour over there at blogg.ch. Yes, it works (more or less).

P.S. Peter, sorry. You have to bother translate.google.com again.

by Fredy Künzler

Quoting Mike Leber of he.net:

Since nobody mentioned it yet, there are now less than 1000 days projected until IPv4 exhaustion:

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/

Do you have an IPv6 plan?

How long do you think it will be until Sarbanes Oxley and SAS 70 auditors start requiring disclosure of IPv4 exhaustion as a business continuity risk, as well as the presence or lack thereof of an IPv6 plan?

When do you plan on telling your customers? (afterwards?)

Ahhh, you don't have any customers that have to plan to buy equipment 2 years in advance. Ok, I understand.

Mike.
ps. 1000 days assumes no rush, speculation, or hoarding. Do people do that?

pps. Of course these are provocative comments for amusement.

ppps. Or not if you don't have any kind of IPv6 plan. Sorry, sorry...

Mike, you're right. Please tell us again in 500 days ...at least I included the IPv4 exhaustion counter here ...

PS: we can deliver IPv6 feed, too.

by Fredy Künzler

I had an interesting discussion recently with "eyeballs" (being myself content-heavy with both Init7 and Zattoo) about Net Neutrality. It ended up with the unanswered question "what is more valuable, content or users?"

From my point of view, both are equal. Even more: content and users are symbiotic. If no content would exist, noone would buy a broadband connection and still rely on old dial-up modems to send and receive their emails. On the other hand, without a decent number of users, all nice drawn business models of content owners would be maculature.

Not new thoughts, though. Still there are many network people out there which consider (heavy bandwidth-consuming) content the root of all evil, completly ignoring that their residential broadband customers provide their paycheck.

Of course "eyeballs" are in trouble if the market price for an avarage DSL | Cable connection is below cost. This happens quite often, in some European countries due the fact that the incumbent is squeezing margins, and the regulator is weak | deaf | ignorant. What to do in such a case?

Cost optimization ... reconsider everything. Especially old-worn IP transit contracts. After 12 to 15 month the latest one should re-negotiate price with the current vendor, and ask other vendors, too. (Independent) eyeball networks should also consider buying from content networks, as they tend to have a lot of excess capacity and may be willing to sell ridiculously cheap.

On factor remains: the user. Commonly they have no clue about the political aspect of Net Neutrality, and they don't care either. Therefore I'll point to an old Youtube-Video, in case someone typing "Net Neutrality" into a search engine and gets pointed to this blog entry ...

by Fredy Künzler

AS1299 + AS5511 = ? Not sure how the Swedish / Finnish and the French can cope in general ... but when reading news about France Telecoms intention to buy TeliaSonera, I remembered that Anabelle (AS5511) and Christian (AS1299) have been whispering alot recently at the global peering forum. Now we all know why ... obviously they have been preparing this plot.

von Fredy Künzler

I stumbled across a document about the history of AS1 today in a blog entry of Renesys and I thought it's worth to share:

[...] AS1 was originally assigned to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN), a pioneering company in the field of network packet technology. BBN engineers are credited with developing the earliest routers, with sending the world’s first e-mail and with establishing the “@” convention used in all e-mail sent today. Through a series of subsequent corporate transactions, ownership of AS1 passed to Genuity, Inc., a communications company whose assets were acquired by Level 3 in February 2003. [...]