IPv6 transition to cost U.S. Government $75B
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3570211 --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Quote: There is an unreleased report by the Dept. of Commerce estimating it will take $25-$75 billion to pay for the transition $50 billion is a heck of a variance in estimates! I suppose they could have said that it will cost $50 billion, give or take $25 billion, and then the variance wouldn't seem to be so big... --Michael Dillon :-)
Remember Senator Bentsen: A billion here, a billion there...and soon you're talking REAL money! On 12/15/05, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com> wrote:
Quote: There is an unreleased report by the Dept. of Commerce estimating it will take $25-$75 billion to pay for the transition
$50 billion is a heck of a variance in estimates!
I suppose they could have said that it will cost $50 billion, give or take $25 billion, and then the variance wouldn't seem to be so big...
--Michael Dillon
:-)
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:32:05AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Well, vendors like Juniper were quick to add extra charges for IPv6 to get more out of this budget. :-) or better :-( Vendors know that .gov HAS to buy the IPv6 license, they have no option when purchasing anymore (if I understood that correctly). Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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