[128695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Clark)
Sat Aug 14 11:47:36 2010
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:47:25 -0400
From: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <DC74890E-F896-4660-ADFF-76D840015390@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 08/14/2010 11:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I was at a trade show several months back. I watched a series of people
> walk up to a vendor and each, in turn, asked about IPv6 support. The
> vendor told each, in turn, "You're the only one asking for it."
>
> I walked up to the vendor and took my turn being told "You're the only
> one asking for it." I pointed out that I had seen the other people get
> the same answer. The sales person admitted he was caught red
> handed and explained "We're working on it, but, we don't have a
> definite date and so our marketing department has told us to downplay
> the demand and the importance until we have something more
> definitive."
>
What company was that? I find it rather odd that any marketing group in
any company would tell a sales team to downplay a possible future
migration path; especially in the case of IP6 which isn't a possible
future migration strategy, but IS a future migration strategy. That's
one company I don't want to do business with if that's what they are
telling their sales team...shows lack of a road map and a total lack of
any understanding of this industry!
