On 01/03/11 12:07 PM, Jake Khuon wrote:
And I agree with the previous poster that in this day and age, it is
unlikely that the sales group of a global provider would not have
encountered such a request. If anything, they should have been hit with
those kinds of requests starting ten years ago. Perhaps that particular
salesperson had not but he/she should have been briefed on it and should
be familiar enough with deployment status to be able to talk
intelligently and honestly with a potential customer.
You can use their reply to an IPv6 request as a bit of a bozo filter,
much like the RFP discussed here used RFC 1149 to determine if the
companies actually read and understood the RFCs they were expected to
support.
http://www.itworld.com/NWW010409bradner
I *love* using Bozo filters. Anytime you can trick companies into
revealing their true colors, you are a step ahead in the game.
jc
