[128701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Aug 14 13:31:48 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C66BA8D.5060100@spectraaccess.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:25:57 -0700
To: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Bret Clark wrote:
> 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."
>>=20
>> 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."
>> =20
> 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!
I won't name names as that company has since changed their
tune and there is nothing to be gained by publicly embarrassing
them.
Owen
