v6 anycast is distinctly different than v4 anycast, which is confusing to most operators I know of.
wrt native IPv6 providers in the US, yes there are a few. todate, they are either small or are "vertical". Perhaps the largest in the US (BW, geographic spread) is the Abilene network. There are a number of ISPs that connect natively to exchange facilities over IPv6. In LA, I am using an ISP with native IPv6 to connect to LAIIX where there is native IPv6 to two other ISPs and a bunch of tunnels to other regional ISPs that connect to other exchanges. Most exchanges will be IPv6 aware/capable in the next 30 days. The backbone/transit networks that had plans (CW, Sprint, WCOM) for native IPv6 products have generally slipped those plans (for a variety of reasons) out for another year or so... based on demand. And quite frankly, these folks need -big- customer demand. So the near-term, pragmatic tactic seems to be for us small users to vote w/ our pocketbooks and support the regional/local ISPs that support IPv6 to local exchanges. --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------