On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government did two things: > > > > - tax incentivise ipv6 compliance > > - make meaningful ipv6 compliance mandatory when dealing with Japanese > > government technical contracts. > > > > The effect of this was to 1) create a direct financial incentive to deploy > > meaningfully, and 2) create an indirect financial incentive to deploy ipv6 > > meaningfully. Spot the pattern here? > > If you are a network contractor for the US government or a vendor > selling network equipment to the DOD then you've had a similar > incentive, if it's not there, you're not going to end up on the approved > suppliers list.
I get the impression that in Japan the incentives led to real deployment, but not in the US - which is a big FAIL for DOD procurement policy. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.
