[161316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mukom Akong T.)
Thu Mar 7 13:16:39 2013
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.03.1303070603050.2556@lavanauts.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:16:11 +0400
From: "Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon@gmail.com>
To: Antonio Querubin <tony@lavanauts.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thursday, March 7, 2013, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> 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.
You are talking about people who have already decided its worth doing and
so they need convincing as to how early to start. I am thinking of people
who need convincing in the first place. For such people, business case is
their language, timeline comes after they are convinced
>
> Antonio Querubin
> e-mail: tony@lavanauts.org
> xmpp: antonioquerubin@gmail.com
>
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