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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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