David Conrad wrote:
If a vendor sales person indicates they are getting no requests for IPv6 support in their products (which would clearly be false since presumably you are requesting IPv6 support),
It's hard to imagine a vendor that is getting _no_ requests for IPv6 support these days; every RFP I see has it listed as an "optional requirement".
However, development priorities are set not by requests but by the amount of business they'll lose if they /don't/ do something. Since IPv6 is not _mandatory_ to win deals in most cases, it's simply not getting done. And, of course, customers can't make it mandatory in an RFP until at least one vendor has implemented it, or they risk getting no qualified responses...
I bet the latter is why the US DoD gave up on their hard IPv6 requirements and now simply mandates that products be "software upgradeable" to support IPv6...
S -- Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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