[161243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mukom Akong T.)
Tue Mar 5 22:24:05 2013
In-Reply-To: <006572C7-3081-4A73-A7C0-79B6A1DD6326@delong.com>
From: "Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 07:23:07 +0400
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hello Owen,
Would I be accurate in re-phrasing each of these as....
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> 1. This will affect the entire organization, not just the IT
> department and
> will definitely impact all of apps, sysadmin, devops, operations,
> and
> networking teams within the IT department.
>
"The scope of the IPv6 endeavour is organisation-wide" so as to mitigate
any internal disconnects that will result from other units perceiving this
as an 'IT department's project?. I would specifically like to at some point
later bring in the marketing and sales folks. They can't pitch it correctly
if they don't understand it can they?
>
> 2. Training will be required for virtually all levels of the
> organization. End users
> won't need more than a ~2 hour introduction to what to look for
> during and
> after the upcoming changes. The IT department will need
> substantial training,
> covering a wide variety of topics (application changes
> (development, configuration,
> testing, management), systems administration changes, networking
> changes, etc.)
>
+1
>
> 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
>
I totally didn't think of this perspective ... this is really assuring.
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Mukom Akong T.
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