RE: focussing energies

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

U.S. DOD date is 2008.
/jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of EricLKlein
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 2:03 PM
> To: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: focussing energies
> 
> 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.
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