[arin-discuss] ipv6 technology supplier phone bank?

[White, Andy]

In response to Paul: 

" how should we build the target list, since many of our vendors are
several
layers deep behind resellers, and since pounding on the resellers may be
like pushing on ropes?"

Perhaps an online questionnaire or survey of membership?  Speaking for
my organization, we use multiple vendors but we're still a predominantly
Cisco shop... I suspect there's a lot of common switches & routers out
there; not to mention firewalls, home gateway routers, CDNs, NMS's, IP
provisioning systems, etc.  Publishing a "scorecard" of, say, the top
5-10 in each category could be a pretty good wake-up call to the vendor
community; it would certainly make it easier for smaller and
medium-sized ISPs to make purchase decisions in the next year or two,
anyway.

I like the concept a lot as well.

Andy White
Director, HSI Engineering
Insight Communications
e-mail: white.andy at insightcom.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Paul Vixie
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:50 AM
To: arin-discuss at arin.net
Subject: [arin-discuss] ipv6 technology supplier phone bank?

> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:40:54 +0100
> From: <michael.dillon at bt.com>
> ...
> Maybe ARIN could organize an IPv6 awareness sprint, and provide a room
> full of phones, with coffee and snacks for the volunteers?

this could be done, and would be among other things a great experience
of
shared pain, shared fun, and shared learning for all.  (and i can see a
way to extend it beyond that room on that day, using a ticket system
after
we get back to our own offices.)  however, one part of the challenge
seems
daunting:

> Any would-be heroes should sit down at the phone and start calling
minor
> equipment vendors and software vendors to find out when they will
support
> IPv6. Any bit of software used in network operational support or by
home
> users needs to be IPv6 capable.

how should we build the target list, since many of our vendors are
several
layers deep behind resellers, and since pounding on the resellers may be
like pushing on ropes?

overall i'm intrigued by this idea, it's a great use of ARIN's resources
--
and i mean especially the talents and contacts of *all* of the people
here,
not just ARIN staff/board/council.

paul vixie
chairman
ARIN BoT