[96906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Tue May 29 12:41:28 2007
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:01:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <p06240801c281f1ae1028@[192.168.4.118]>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 29 May 2007, John Curran wrote:
>
> ISP's are going to have to actually *lead* the transition
> to IPv6 both in terms of infrastructure and setting
> customer expectations.
and this means getting a good story in front of bean-counters about
expending opex/capex to do this transition work. Today the simplest answer
is: "if we expend Z dollars on new equipment, and A dollars on IT work we
will be able to capture X number of users for Y new service" or some
version of that story.
Solving that has turned out to be difficult (as is shown by the global
lack of meaningful deployment)
> p.s. It's not the classic chicken/egg situation;
> it's much simpler: Look up and see the IPv4
> Internet - that's the egg, it's first, and it's falling.
> We have to recognize that fact and gentle catch
> it, or there just won't be any chicken.
ok...
