[59036] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Shankland)
Thu Jun 12 14:21:31 2003
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 02:21:47 -0700
From: Jim Shankland <nanog@shankland.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030612173507.24670.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com>
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David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com> writes:
> I think the place you're going to see IPv6 adoption is government
> networks - I've seen several RFPs from various government offices
> which are requiring some degree of IPv6 capability. This is going
> to drive the various large carriers who have these governments as
> customers to implement a generically working IPv6 solution.
This is the same phenomenon that drove the explosive adoption rates
of the ISO OSI protocol stack and the Ada programming language.
Jim Shankland
