[AusNOG] APNIC Slashes Costs for New Members

[Mark Smith]

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> From: "nathan at manageddatasolutions.com.au" <nathan at manageddatasolutions.com.au>
>To: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>; 'Mark Andrews' <marka at isc.org>; 'Jared Hirst' <jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au> 
>Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
>Sent: Saturday, 2 March 2013 11:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] APNIC Slashes Costs for New Members
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>Mark,
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>That seems to be just a comment for the sake of creating an argument...
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Not at all.

>You either didn't read the rest of the post or seem to be interested in taking that sentence out of context when the rest of the post indicates all the pros and cons for a small business to accelerate investment in IPv6 (or not accelerating it beyond what's in the project plan).
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Actually, it is completely in context. The problem you claim to be solving for your customers are their connectivity problems i.e. they want to communicate, and you claim to be able to facilitate that. They quite rightly don't have to care about what technology is used to to achieve that, as long as they are able to communicate with whom they want to communicate. If they want to communicate with "the Internet", meaning everybody on it, that now or will soon mean via IPv4 or via IPv6. If you don't invest in IPv6, you aren't providing the Internet connectivity your customers want and expect, even if they don't know or need to know to ask for IPv6. Or you could rename your Internet products "limited, IPv4 only Internet" connectivity, and that would then be the truth (and also won't fall foul of trade practices laws ...)


>Nathan
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>From: "Mark Smith" <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>
>To: "Nathan Nogic" <nathan at manageddatasolutions.com.au>, "'Mark Andrews'" <marka at isc.org>, "'Jared Hirst'" <jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au>
>Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>Subject: [AusNOG] APNIC Slashes Costs for New Members
>Date: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 11:35 AM
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>> reality is that very few of our customers actually care about IPv4 or IPv6
>> (shocking but true), they care about connectivity 
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>And that is exactly why *you* need to care about IPv6, even if your customers don't. "The Internet" means, or will soon mean both IPv4 and IPv6. If you don't provide both of them, you aren't providing complete and full Internet connectivity, and customers will care about that a lot.
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