no dont stop the rant :p the more discussion the more i get excited about it :P
Ill get in touch with melita as soon as i stop swearing at them for stopping my internet connection when i had paid :/ Anyways, what about sixxs ? how does it work ? On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti < [email protected]> wrote: > I had received an email after a followup when I met the chairman of the > Internet Foundation. As I said I had already done a couple of queries > myself. This is as things stood till around 3 weeks ago: > > Hi Raphael, > > Thanks for your e-mail and I will be pleased to remain in touch with you. I > represent the Malta Internet Foundation (NIC Malta) in NISCO but I am also > Director of IT Services at the University. > > I recall that not long ago you had sent an e-mail on IPv6 to NIC(Malta) > and my colleague and I had exchanged a couple of short e-mails with you on > this. With regard to IPv6 it would help if as many users as possible > demand IPv6 connectivity from their respective ISP's. > > To my knowledge GO & Vodafone (who are currently the only commercial > companies that have international connectivity) still do not provide > IPv6connectivity. Not sure what Melita Cable will provide once they come on > the > scene later this year with their submarine fibre. > > Regards > Rob > > > > As I said, the best way forward for this to take off is for consumers to > ask their ISPs to get connected. Once a local ISP gets connected, all others > will get connected too since most of the ISPs share the backbones anyway. > Based on a survey done by Google, one of the most surprising statistics > regarding IPv6 deployments across a country was when a whole ISP rolls out > its IPv6 in its equipment ad sets it as default. This was in 2007. I can > understand why ISPs drag their feet in spending money in buying IPv6 > connectivity, because if nobody uses it, they would be loosing out. However > providing local PoP access can allow them to buy very limited quantitities > and allow people to experiment a bit. > > <meh> enough ranting > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]>wrote: > >> this is somethign that really interests me actually. Anyone have more info >> of which isps support/may support in the future ipv6 ? >> >> if yes, how do i switch ? :D >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Iain <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Such a pity when one considers https://www.nic.org.mt/ip/ is supporting >>> IPv6 but the last local news from http://www.mt.ipv6tf.org/ was over 2 >>> years ago. >>> >>> "Malta needs to start looking ahead by initiating a Research & >>> Development programme geared towards the eventual roll-out of IPv6 on a >>> national basis. Malta should commence experimenting with and planning >>> for this new version of IP." - >>> >>> Source: http://www.mca.org.mt/infocentre/openarticle.asp?id=668&pref=47 >>> >>> "The European Commission today set Europe a target of getting 25% of EU >>> industry, public authorities and households to use IPv6 by 2010" >>> >>> Source: http://www.mca.org.mt/infocentre/openarticle.asp?id=1197&pref=47 >>> >>> Any ISP people out there got plans for IPv6? >>> >>> Regs. >>> >>> Iain. >>> >>> On 25/02/09 10:08, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: >>> > None... I have already sent an email to all of them as well as nudging >>> > them to provide PoP access via SIXXS since they would probably need to >>> > change their ADSL/cable modems. I suggest you send another gentle >>> > email. The more people ask, the more they consider buying the >>> > bandwidth. The only entity which apparently has official native IPv6 >>> > connectivity is University through the EU academic network. >>> > >>> > If anyone on the list can shed more light about this issue, I would be >>> > deeply thankful. >>> > >>> > I have setup my home router (Linux of course) with IPv6 connectivity >>> > through a tunnel to holland. The italian PoP which was the closest >>> > wasn't providing access to non-customers when I registered. I was >>> > given a /48 and all my home has native IPv6 connectivity. Would be >>> > great to eliminate the need to tunnel since it kills latency when I >>> > connect remotely to a file share or download ISOs via bittorrent. >>> > SIXXS offer a very good bittorrent service for people connected >>> > natively via IPv6. >>> > >>> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Iain <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> Anyone know of an ISP in Malta who supports IPv6? >>> >> >>> >> Regs. >>> >> >>> >> Iain. >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> MLUG-list mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>> >> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MLUG-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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