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

[Mark Andrews]

In message <5136B64A.5000206 at bowenvale.co.nz>, Don Gould writes:
> On 6/03/2013 4:04 p.m., David Hughes wrote:
> >
> > Correct.  The network really isn't the hard part.
> 
> > But, as with the network, if new system were built that way over the last 1
> 0 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.*

If you you turn on IPv6 at home +50% of your traffic will be IPv6.
Enough of the big user sites are IPv6 enabled already.  YouTube,
Facebook, etc.  That should be enough for any eyeball network to
see that it is not a waste of time.

The amount of IPv6 traffic you see really does depend apon where
you are observing the traffic from.

The traffic will come as more ISPs turn on IPv6 on the eyeball
networks.

> 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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