1. Goran Slavić, SOX Chief Engineer gslavic@sox.rs
SEE 6
Budva, Montenegro
Why don’t YOU have IPv6 ?
Goran Slavić, SOX Chief Engineer

2. Category I - Money What sentence best describes your problem:
“We don’t have the money to buy IPv6 enabled equipment”.
“We don’t see monetary reason to deploy IPv6”
“We don’t see revenue from IPv6 deployment”
“We don’t see the profit in IPv6 deployment”
“We don’t have the money to support the IPv6 migration project in our whole network”

3. Category II - Technology
What sentence best describes your problem:
“We don’t have technology to implement IPv6”.
“We have a problem with migration to IPv6 equipment”
“We have a problem with properly configuring new equipment“
“We have a problem with understanding all of the things that need to be done for IPv6 implementation”

4. Category III - People What sentence best describes your problem:
“We don’t have enough people who understand IPv6”.
“We don’t have enough knowledge to implement IPv6”
“We don’t have enough people who can work on IPv4 to IPv6 migration“
“We don’t have people with adequate knowledge of troubleshooting IPv6 problems and issues”

5. Category IV - Security What sentence best describes your problem:
“We don’t believe we understand IPv6 security issues”.
“We don’t have the knowledge to implement IPv6 security in our network”
“We are too risk averse to implement IPv6“
“We don’t have the confidence that our users will be secured enough”
“We don’t have the confidence that our users will be able to protect themselves from security problems of IPv6”

6. Category V – Combination
Combination of the issues / problems already listed ?
Problem with something that is unique for your network ?
Problem with regulation / government policy?
Problem with customers ?
Problem with motivation ?
Problem with lack of initiatives in your market ?

7. Solutions
Do you believe that future implementation of IPv6 should be regulated by the government, be community driven or be handled by “somebody” ?
Do you think that there should be an government agency / institute / NGO / non-profit entity that should be dealing with coordination of IPv6 deployment in your country ? Which one of these would you prefer ?
Do you think that you are capable to implement IPv6 in the future by yourself or do you think you need assistance ? What kind of assistance ?

8. Solutions
Would you prefer to pay somebody to coordinate gradual implementation of IPv6 in your network – or would you prefer to pay for a “turn key” solution ?
Do you believe that you are capable to train you personnel in IPv6 operation yourself – or do you thing that they would need courses (for example: seminar organized by RIPE NCC).
If there is a budget in your company reserved for a IPv6 deployment – where do you thing that you would have to spend most of it now ?