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

Thu Mar 7 04:50:41 UTC 2013

On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:

> I would pitch it as follows: We need to at least have IPv6 access to troubleshoot/understand customers that have dual-stack technology.

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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