Hello Carol,

On Thursday December 06 2018 20:43, you wrote to me:

 CS> I do not think ANYONE here is going to spend the costs for commercial
 CS> links of te local area.

No one asked you to do that.

 MV>> Question:

 MV>> Are you aware that to help out those that can not get native IPv6
 MV>> from there own ISP, there are providers that offer a so called
 MV>> "tunnel service" for free? Can you name one of hem?

 CS> Yes several.  They are posted in the Fidonews.  I can not get native
 CS> IPV6 here yet at a reasonable cost and that is true of much of Z1.

It is true for most of the world, not just Z1. But that was not my question.

 CS> There it no gain in a tunnel of IPV6 to an IPV4 setup.

Eh?

 CS> What I hope is the next FTSC chair thinks to ask about such
 CS> availabilty before assuming 'just tunnel it' works.

"Just tunnel it" DOES work. That is not an assumption that is researched
knowledge. Tunnels are available for everyone on earth with an internet
connection with a public IPv4 address. It DOES work. For free. For you too.

What I hope is the next FTSC chair thinks to ask about what a tunnel actually
is before rejecting the idea out of hand.

 CS> Do we even have IPV6 in Z4?

Irrelevant for the question at hand. But yes. See the list of IPv6 nodes in
Fidonews.

Anyway...  I conclude that the answer to my question ....

 MV>>>> If elected, Will you lead by example and upgrade your system so
 MV>>>> that your binkp server is connectable via IPv6?

   .... is "no", I will not lead by example.

Thanks for answering.


Cheers, Michiel

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