On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > Getting the cpe vendors to ship in quantity requires the ISP engineering > organizations to say in unison "we are deploying IPv6 and will only recommend > products that pass testing".
Do you see any evidence of that occurring? I don't. Also, a lot of broadband consumers and enterprise organizations buy and deploy their own CPE. Do you see a lot of IPv6 activity there? I don't, excepting an IPv6 RFP checkbox for enterprises, which doesn't have any formal requirements and is essentially meaningless because of that fact. > You claim to be looking for the economic incentive, but are looking with such > a short time horizon that all you see are the 'waste' products vendors > are pushing to make a quick sale, knowing that you will eventually come back > for yet-another-hack to delay transition, and prop up your expertise in a > legacy technology. No. What I am looking for is an economic incentive which will justify the [IMHO] wildly overoptimisitic claims which some are making in re ubiquitous end-to-end native IPv6 deployment. Otherwise, I believe it will be a much more gradual adoption curve, as you indicate. > The same thing happened with the SNA faithful 15 years ago, and history shows > what happened there. You attribute circumstances and motivations to me which do not apply. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton
