On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 27/02/2010 04:04, Phil Regnauld wrote:
I'm not saying that political incentives (carrot & stick) or government regulations in the line of "implement IPv6 before X/Y or else..." have had any effect, except maybe in Japan:
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.
Nick