[161241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vincent C Jones)
Tue Mar 5 21:57:55 2013
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:56:03 -0500
From: Vincent C Jones <v.jones@networkingunlimited.com>
In-reply-to: <006572C7-3081-4A73-A7C0-79B6A1DD6326@delong.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: v.jones@networkingunlimited.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 17:41 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 3. We've actually been through this before. In some cases more than once.
> e.g.:
> Novell -> TCP/IP
> Windows Networking -> TCP/IP
> Appletalk -> TCP/IP
> NCP -> TCP/IP
>
> In some ways, this change is less profound than many of those.
Lest we forget one of the more profound ones whose memory could be the
source of much resistance. Assuming this industry had any memory...
TCP/IP -> MAP/TOP/GOSIP -> TCP/IP
Complete with government mandates, dual stacking, and RFP inclusion.
Been there, done that, been burnt...
Vincent Jones
