On 01/07/2016 21:52, Mike Jones wrote: > I am in contact with a couple of network operators trying to prod them > to deploy IPv6, I figured that 10 minutes to send a couple of emails > was worth the effort to make them "see a customer demand" (now none of > them can use the excuse that nobody has asked for it!), but the > replies I got were less than impressive to say the least. > > I was wondering if you guys could summarise your experiences with > people who make excuses for not deploying IPv6? I regularly see a > specific person saying "we can't deploy it because X" followed by you > guys "correcting them" and telling them how to deploy it without the > problems they claim they will have, but that is only a small snapshot > of the people who bother to post about their ignorance in public. I > suspect there is also a lot of selection-bias in the NANOG membership > base but you deal with a lot of enterprise networks off of this list > so probably have broader experience than the NANOG archives. > > Can we have a thread summarising the most common excuses you've heard, > and if they are actual problems blocking IPv6 deployment or just down > to ignorance? Perhaps this could be the basis for an FAQ type page > that I can point people to when they say they don't know how to deploy > IPv6 on their networks? :)
Our provider sale representative, who is the most tech savvy sale-rep I ever encountered by far, which is not a very high bar, but still, said something like: "You shouldn't worry about that, we have plenty of IPv4 addresses left... and besides we are "working on it(TM)"... it's going to be deployed next year... probably " Needless to say I'm still waiting. :) Ciao, Davide Davini
