RE: ocean: do not boil

["Bound, Jim" <Jim.Bound@hp.com>]

Hmmmm.  This is important assumption discussion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@iij.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:17 AM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Cc: Margaret Wasserman; Hesham Soliman (EAB); Brian E Carpenter; Bob
> Hinden; Bob Fink; Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino; v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: ocean: do not boil
> 
> 
> > The piece that I think your missing is pretty simple 
> really.  The customer
> > does not want a parallel IPv4 infrastructure and wants it 
> removed as soon
> > as possible.
> 
> hypothesis: the customer does not care.  they just want to get their
> job done.

Don't agree.  This is similar in engineering when architects tell me customers did not hire Computer Science or Software Engineering personnel that are capable of making very hard networking decisions and analysis for the enterprise.  Many customer sites do have operation expertise and engineering expertise and do develop their own visions, strategies, etc about how they approach a large networking problem like IPv6.
I have personally heard of customers telling me they believe it cheaper to kill off IPv4 as soon as possible.

I think there are many customers that have this hypothesis.  I go back to what Tony said we need to permit work and drive work that helps many customers.

I don't know how many either way and cannot say.  I am saying this case does exist.

> 
> anecdotal evidence: the low adoption rate of any of this stuff.

A lot of that now is the economy and the Internet bubble having burst.

/jim

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> randy
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