[138238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Tue Mar 1 15:25:17 2011
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:24:27 -0500
From: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1299010028.9363.14.camel@Decaf.NEEBU.Net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We've been the "first" for one of the oldest and best known Tier 1's in
Metro Atlanta for quite some time....
It only took them 3 weeks to get the order right in their billing system
and another 4.5 months to get it working.
> And I agree with the previous poster that in this day and age, it is
> unlikely that the sales group of a global provider would not have
> encountered such a request. If anything, they should have been hit with
> those kinds of requests starting ten years ago. Perhaps that particular
> salesperson had not but he/she should have been briefed on it and should
> be familiar enough with deployment status to be able to talk
> intelligently and honestly with a potential customer.
>
>
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Scott Helms
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