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

Thu Mar 7 10:42:02 UTC 2013

On 7 Mar 2013, at 02:50, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

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> On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
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>> I would pitch it as follows: We need to at least have IPv6 access to troubleshoot/understand customers that have dual-stack technology.
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> That's a great point, but my guess is that the suits will say that since none 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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	Yes, but this is an argument to deploy the whole IPv6 thing, not against a strategy to first deploy in-house and then to customers, isn't it?

	In my experience, it is always best to try IPv6 in-house (at least a small office, a group, etc.) and then move to customers, YMMV.

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