On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government did two things:
- tax incentivise ipv6 compliance - make meaningful ipv6 compliance mandatory when dealing with Japanese government technical contracts.
The effect of this was to 1) create a direct financial incentive to deploy meaningfully, and 2) create an indirect financial incentive to deploy ipv6 meaningfully. Spot the pattern here?
If you are a network contractor for the US government or a vendor selling network equipment to the DOD then you've had a similar incentive, if it's not there, you're not going to end up on the approved suppliers list.
I get the impression that in Japan the incentives led to real deployment, but not in the US - which is a big FAIL for DOD procurement policy. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.