Re: About IETF communication skills

>From: Fred Baker <fred <at> cisco.com>

>On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:52 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>
>> Some considered that part of the delay of the IPv6 deployment was
>> due to the lack of communication effort from IETF. I'm not really
>> sure about that, however I agree that everything helps, of course.
>
>To be honest, I think IPv6 has been overmarketed.

and

>But IPv6 was heavily marketed. That leaves people saying, now that the
>problem is materializing, "yeah, yeah, yeah, been hearing about that
>for years."

Permit me to say that IMHO you are both right and wrong.
Yes, IPv6 was heavily marketed as "immediate death of the IPv4 net 
predicted" for so many years that I heard this kind of reply for many years. 
Uninformed people just don't believe the "hype" that IPv4 addresses are 
running out. After all, this is indeed the same stuff we used to feed them 
10 years ago.

But overmarketed, I disagree. Mis-marketed might be the term to use.

IPv6 needs to be marketed to a vast variety of stakeholders:
- end individual users
- corporate commercial users
- ISPs
- Governments