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A Large Corporate User's View of IPng

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Network Working Group                                      E. Fleischman
Request for Comments: 1687                      Boeing Computer Services
Category: Informational                                      August 1994


                 A Large Corporate User's View of IPng

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   This document was submitted to the IETF IPng area in response to RFC
   1550.  Publication of this document does not imply acceptance by the
   IPng area of any ideas expressed within.  Comments should be
   submitted to the  mailing list.

Disclaimer and Acknowledgments

   Much of this draft has been adapted from the article "A User's View
   of IPng" by Eric Fleischman which was published in the September 1993
   edition of ConneXions Magazine (Volume 7, Number 9, pages 36 - 40).
   The original ConneXions article represented an official position of
   The Boeing Company on IPng issues.  This memo is an expansion of that
   original treatment.  This version also represents a Boeing corporate
   opinion which we hope will be helpful to the on-going IPng
   discussions.  An assumption of this paper is that other Fortune 100
   companies which have non-computing-related products and services will
   tend to have a viewpoint about IPng which is similar to the one
   presented by this paper.

Executive Summary

   Key points:

   1)  Large corporate users generally view IPng with disfavor.

   2)  Industry and the IETF community have very different values
       and viewpoints which lead to orthogonal assessments concerning
       the desirability of deploying IPng.

   3)  This paper provides insight into the mindset of a large
       corporate user concerning the relevant issues surrounding an
       IPng deployment.  The bottom line is that a new deployment of
       IPng runs counter to several business drivers.  A key point to



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