[138253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Tue Mar 1 22:04:09 2011
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:03:22 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1299010028.9363.14.camel@Decaf.NEEBU.Net>
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On 01/03/11 12:07 PM, Jake Khuon wrote:
> 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.
You can use their reply to an IPv6 request as a bit of a bozo filter,
much like the RFP discussed here used RFC 1149 to determine if the
companies actually read and understood the RFCs they were expected to
support.
http://www.itworld.com/NWW010409bradner
I *love* using Bozo filters. Anytime you can trick companies into
revealing their true colors, you are a step ahead in the game.
jc
