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Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sat Feb 27 14:27:24 2010
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:26:41 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B8906B7.8070203@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 27/02/2010 04:04, Phil Regnauld wrote:
>> I'm not saying that political incentives (carrot & stick) or government
>> regulations in the line of "implement IPv6 before X/Y or else..." have
>> had any effect, except maybe in Japan:
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government did two things:
>
> - tax incentivise ipv6 compliance
> - make meaningful ipv6 compliance mandatory when dealing with Japanese
> government technical contracts.
>
> The effect of this was to 1) create a direct financial incentive to deploy
> meaningfully, and 2) create an indirect financial incentive to deploy ipv6
> meaningfully. Spot the pattern here?
If you are a network contractor for the US government or a vendor
selling network equipment to the DOD then you've had a similar
incentive, if it's not there, you're not going to end up on the approved
suppliers list.
> Nick
>
