[123549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Mar 10 17:43:59 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ljdzq0dh.fsf@laphroiag.quux.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:41:20 -0800
To: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Jens Link wrote:
> Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
>
>> I spend much of my time talking to groups of people about this. I
>> have managed to get several members of such groups from denial to
>> bargaining and sometimes eve depression in a single session.
>
> I did several presentations about IPv6 basics myself and there was very
> positive feedback but those people had already in interest in IPv6.
>
In some cases, yes. I've given a few presentations to audiences that
started out downright hostile to IPv6 and many to audiences who
were asking questions like "Can't we just use LSN?".
> I always quote an admin form a big German university: "We'll start with
> IPv6 in 13 years. It's when my colleague retires."
>
ROFL... Yep... I'm sure that will apply in several cases, but, there
are places where I do see minds changing.
Owen
>> On rare occasion, acceptance even starts to set in.
>
> Thats true. I did one presentation, had a two hour train ride
> with someone from the audience and a couple of days later I got an
> email from him that his company network is running IPv6.
>
> But this is one person from a couple of hundred.
>
>> I think it is getting better and continuing to talk about it will help.
>
> Thats also true and I'm looking forward to this weekend when I once again
> will try to tell people why they should learn IPv6 now.
>
> Jens
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