[137239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Feb 10 07:08:54 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D5336BB.8020602@iglou.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:08:06 +0100
To: Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10 feb 2011, at 1:52, Jeff McAdams wrote:
> I've always worked in small to middle sized shops, and I have always =
found that I've been able to yell and scream about IPv6 (and other =
features) loud enough, and long enough that I get heard by someone in a =
decision making position for product features (usually along the lines =
of a product manager or so). And every time I've made the effort to do =
that (admittedly, not a small effort), that product or line of product =
has had IPv6 available for it within about a year or so (if not sooner).
About 10 years ago I was involved in a project where we were looking for =
one or two dozen or so gigabit ethernet switches. That order would have =
barely broken into six figure territory. One sales engineer came around =
with their product and I remarked "no jumboframe support? your =
competitors all do 9000 bytes!" A week later, he was back with a newer =
version of the same box... with 64000-byte jumboframe support. :-)
