<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 9, 2016, at 23:14 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">If people want to deploy IPv6 they will do it but the compeling reason will eventually be competition as the motivation and nothing else.<br class=""><br class="">Atleast folk i know who do it dont even dual stack in their core as the prefix basically just seats on their boader router facing their ISP for the purpose of announcing it and that is it.</p></div></blockquote>Really?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You don’t know very many people then… Here are some I know:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.facebook.com" class="">www.facebook.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::25de</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::25de, icmp_seq=0 hlim=53 time=78.875 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::25de, icmp_seq=1 hlim=53 time=76.036 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::25de, icmp_seq=2 hlim=53 time=75.961 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://star-mini.c10r.facebook.com" class="">star-mini.c10r.facebook.com</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 75.961/76.957/78.875/1.356 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.001u 0.003s 0:02.13 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.google.com" class="">www.google.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004, icmp_seq=0 hlim=55 time=31.035 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004, icmp_seq=1 hlim=55 time=31.229 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004, icmp_seq=2 hlim=55 time=30.146 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://www.google.com" class="">www.google.com</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 30.146/30.803/31.229/0.472 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.03 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.comcast.net" class="">www.comcast.net</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2600:1406:34::b819:388d</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:34::b819:388d, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=35.388 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:34::b819:388d, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=35.445 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:34::b819:388d, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=30.565 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://a1526.dscg.akamai.net" class="">a1526.dscg.akamai.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 30.565/33.799/35.445/2.287 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.05 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.netflix.com" class="">www.netflix.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4, icmp_seq=0 hlim=43 time=50.512 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4, icmp_seq=1 hlim=43 time=50.382 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4, icmp_seq=2 hlim=43 time=50.202 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://www.latency.prodaa.netflix.com" class="">www.latency.prodaa.netflix.com</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 50.202/50.365/50.512/0.127 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.004s 0:02.07 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://whitehouse.gov" class="">whitehouse.gov</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2001:428:6402:19c::2add</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2001:428:6402:19c::2add, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=48.869 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2001:428:6402:19c::2add, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=49.243 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2001:428:6402:19c::2add, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=48.470 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://whitehouse.gov" class="">whitehouse.gov</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 48.470/48.861/49.243/0.316 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.09 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.irs.gov" class="">www.irs.gov</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50, icmp_seq=0 hlim=55 time=35.796 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50, icmp_seq=1 hlim=55 time=30.659 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50, icmp_seq=2 hlim=55 time=30.862 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e3920.dscna.akamaiedge.net" class="">e3920.dscna.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 30.659/32.439/35.796/2.375 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.003s 0:02.05 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.usda.gov" class="">www.usda.gov</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2600:1406:1a:39a::500</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:39a::500, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=149.769 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:39a::500, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=147.715 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:39a::500, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=145.721 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e1280.dscb.akamaiedge.net" class="">e1280.dscb.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 145.721/147.735/149.769/1.653 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.004s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.juniper.net" class="">www.juniper.net</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=148.142 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=150.608 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=145.517 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e1824.dscb.akamaiedge.net" class="">e1824.dscb.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 145.517/148.089/150.608/2.079 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.cisco.com" class="">www.cisco.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:1014 --> 2600:1406:1a:389::90</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:389::90, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=145.665 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:389::90, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=145.943 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:389::90, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=145.636 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e144.dscb.akamaiedge.net" class="">e144.dscb.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 145.636/145.748/145.943/0.138 ms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 231, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 1, 2);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I know more, but I think that gets the point across.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">So announcing an IPv6 prefix to an upstream provider imho doesnt cut it and its easy to do.</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>That’s true… Really deploying IPv6 is what is needed and it is happening with or without the African region.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Guess what happens in the rest of the world shortly after IPv6 is sufficiently deployed that IPv4 stragglers are no longer considered sufficiently relevant to justify the costs?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Don’t believe me… Read this:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-study-facebook-moving-to-an-ipv6-only-internal-network/" class="">http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-study-facebook-moving-to-an-ipv6-only-internal-network/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>This is from 2014… They’ve continued to progress down the turn off IPv4 internally road since then.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>AWS and Microsoft Azure have now deployed IPv6 support for their cloud platforms.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Amazon’s ROUTE53 DNS service now has IPv6 support.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you truly want to see the African region able to meaningfully interact with the internet going forward, focusing on IPv4 will not serve you well.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>