Re: focussing energies

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

The EU has certainly not mandated any such thing. They burnt their fingers
badly with OSI mandates 15 years ago, and are unlikely to repeat that
mistake. There is substantial EU support for IPv6 deployment, but that
is far from being a mandate.

  Brian

EricLKlein wrote:
> 
> From: "Alain Durand" <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>
> >
> > a) the best model is to get ISPs to deploy IPv6 to their customer. No
> > transition mechanism is better
> > than anything else. Most ISPs won't do it unless there is strong
> > motivation:
> > - political mandate to do so
> > - political incentive (like tax break)
> > - customer asking for it
> > The first two are outside the realm of IETF. The last one will only be
> > driven by the new applications
> > requiring/working better with IPv6. Nothing here that this wg can do
> > about.
> >
> Just keep in mind that some governments have mandated that all services be
> transitioned to IPv6 by fixed dates (off the top of my head I know that
> Japan and the EU have mandated dates) but I am not sure what the penalties
> are for failing to meet these mandates.