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Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Mar 6 23:50:57 2013

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG General Mail List <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 04:50:41 +0000
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On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:

> I would pitch it as follows: We need to at least have IPv6 access to trou=
bleshoot/understand customers that have dual-stack technology.

That's a great point, but my guess is that the suits will say that since no=
ne of their customers are using IPv6, there's no urgency (yes, I know, it's=
 better to be prepared ahead of time; but foresight doesn't generally carry=
 much weight in quarterly-driven enterprises).

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