Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Tue Apr 21 22:02:13 UTC 2009

I suspect at more than a few companies the "Net Admin" can get a
10 minute slot on the CTO's calendar....in 2042.  In the wonderful
game of pass it up the food chain it probably looks something like
this:

Net-Admin:  This IPv6 stuff is important, we should already be deploying
            it full-tilt.

Manager:    Some IPv6 testing should be reflected in next years budget.

Director:   I hear IPv6 is the future, but customers just aren't
            demanding it.

VP Network: Humm, maybe I should have read the Network World article on
            IPv6 rather than the one on Google World Dominance.

CTO:        *crickets*

I think this is a tool to cause everyone in that chain to have to
do a lot more communicating up and down, and I think that is a very
good thing at many companies, particularly large companies.

There is no silver bullet here.  There is no one thing that can be done
that can make it all better.  This is a small, but important step that
will be significant to some, but not all companies.  To that end I'm
glad ARIN has taken it, and hope it is one of many steps that get us to
the destination.

-- 
       Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
        PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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