[afripv6-discuss] What have you done for IPv6 lately, since the 1st of January, 2013?

[Mark Elkins]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 07:20 -0800, SM wrote:
> At 05:50 19-02-2013, Guy Antony Halse wrote:
> >So I am the customer who *did* ask my home DSL provider for IPv6.  For the
> >very reasons expressed above I know I'm in the minority, which is precisely
> >why I made a point of asking on behalf of those who don't know they need it.
> >
> >The answer I got was "we don't support IPv6 at the moment".  I asked if they
> >had a timeframe for deployment, so I'd know when to ask again.  The answer:
> >"we have no plans to support IPv6".
> >
> >Unfortunately I think this is very common.  There's a catch22 here...
> 
> There is content available over IPv6 now.  The IPv6 adoption rate for 
> South Africa is 0.46%.  The University of the Free State mentioned 
> that it switched to IPv6 last year.  www.ufs.ac.za is IPv4 only 
> though.  www.tenet.ac.za is IPv4 only.  whois.co.za is IPv4 only.

Careful, www.co.za is indeed IPv4 only - but has nothing to do with the
registry business in South Africa.


I believe that all the "CO.ZA" Registry machines are dual-stacked.....

eg - www.coza.net.za  -->  2001:43f8:30::173


> The above (quoted text) happens everywhere.  The presentations I saw 
> mentioned plans to deliver IPv6 in 2012.
> 
> Regards,
> -sm 
> 
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