[AusNOG] IPv6 - What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

[Don Gould]

On 6/03/2013 4:04 p.m., David Hughes wrote:
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> Correct.  The network really isn't the hard part.

> But, as with the network, if new system were built that way over the last 10 years or so then lots of this would have happened before it became urgent.

Ok, so excuse me if I'm just being really thick here...

...but if that had been happening, give that our average technology 
refresh on anything other than big printers is 4 years, we'd be though 
two cycles.

*We're at 1% traffic.*

So how do we cross these managers over this?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10844736

Do we have to do more to push this crap at them harder to just scare the 
shorts off them?

Do they need some fear of God?

Do we need to do more to drive FUD?

Someone said you don't use FUD to sell cars... he's right, but we're not 
selling cars here, we're selling IT.

D
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