Re: IPv6 connectivity mandates?

[Vinny Abello <vinny () tellurian com>]

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> > Given all of the discussion about IPv6 on this last over the past
> > several weeks, I figured I'd chum the waters a bit more :)  This is
> > mainly for people working in colleges and universities, but could
> > apply to ISP/NSPs as well.
> >
> > Has anyone seen any indication that, given the US government's push to
> > deploy IPv6, they will start (or perhaps they've started already?)
> > writing mandates for applicant networks to have IPv6 connectivity into
> > the requirements for federally funded grants?
>
> Yes, and the RPF's are downloadable from the various .gov sites. It just
> depends on which market/business/... one is in.
>
> > Is anyone seeing anything similar outside of the United States?
>
> Asian countries do it a lot (India*, Japan, Korea, China from the top of
> my head). Also read up at http://www.ipv6style.jp/en/ for instance which
> carries a lot of actually interesting original articles. Oh and yes,
> there is reason to learn Japanese: one can actually then keep up with
> all the real cool new toys on this planet ;)

I was just speaking with a family member who works for a large unnamed company that designs and sells telecom equipment 
in local and foreign markets... (was L****t Technologies and is now A*****l L****t). We were talking a little about 
IPv6 and he mentioned that the group he was previously in had a requirement by their Japanese clients to have their 
equipment v6 enabled to be considered at all vs. their competitors' products. It the case was similar in other Asian 
markets as well, I believe.

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