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

[Arturo Servin <aservin () lacnic net>]

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

> 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).

        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.

/as