Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

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