<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 7:06 PM Tim Chown <<a href="mailto:Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk">Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> On 1 May 2020, at 04:44, Jen Linkova <<a href="mailto:furry13@gmail.com" target="_blank">furry13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> I'd not assume that IPv6 is not getting deployed (only) because it's<br>
> hard or because of<br>
> the technical difficulties.<br>
> Maybe you are more lucky but I personally have a lot of things on my<br>
> 'would be nice to get done' list - and none<br>
> of them are hard to do. It's justĀ they keep getting postponed because<br>
> if other things which are either more urgent or more important.<br>
> I'd not be surprised if IPv6 deployments suffer from the same issue quite often.<br>
<br>
I think this is spot on; IPv6 never makes it to the top of the list for most organisations.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From my previous life, almost 6/7years ago the decision to either go with IPv6 (network was ready and we did the POC as well) or buy more IPv4 blocks was made on the basis of a 2/3sec pause from the engineering head in response to a BU head questioning "are you confident that IPv6 is not going to create any problems?" 2 days later I was talking to brokers. Fast forward, I would be interested if someone who can do myth busting for c-suite would be great. A Panel may be?</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best Wishes,<div><br></div><div>Aftab Siddiqui</div></div></div></div>