[161315] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Thu Mar 7 11:11:35 2013
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 06:10:34 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lavanauts.org>
To: "Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Mukom Akong T. wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Antonio Querubin <tony@lavanauts.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't think the business case is the issue. It is the timeline over
>> which the sense of urgency becomes important enough for most execs to take
>> seriously. That's still a large unknown.
>
>
> Why should they care about the timeline if they aren't convinced it is even
> worth doing?
If they're convinced that it's not worth doing ever - then you're wasting
your own time. They may think it's not worth a lot of effort over the
immediate future but if the effort is spread thinly and integrated into
regular infrastructure upgrades over a longer period of time then that's
an easier pill to swallow.
Antonio Querubin
e-mail: tony@lavanauts.org
xmpp: antonioquerubin@gmail.com
