World IPv6 Day?

[Seth Mattinen]

On 1/12/2011 11:21, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
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> On 1/12/11 1:44 PM, "Gert Doering" <gert at space.net> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:31:14AM -0800, Cameron Byrne wrote:
>>> Big thanks to Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Akamai, Limelight and all the others.
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>> I'm somewhat wondering why all those that do *not* do IPv6 yet get the
>> cheers now, while those that already have IPv6 (heise.de, vg.no, etc.)
>> can only watch and wonder...
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> Because we have shinier logos? ;-)
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Probably. I've been playing with IPv6 since '05 and recently achieved my
goal of all my transit circuits being dual-stack only and IPv6 support
across the board, although I've offered IPv6 to customers for years.
Suddenly when the big guys catch up (just to run a 24 hour test) they're
hailed as great industry leaders when that's clearly not the case. World
IPv6 day makes it sound like something nobody has tried before. Those of
us that offer complete IPv6 *today* are the leaders.

The big guys are afraid of broken IPv6 on eyeballs, but I don't believe
that all of the broken will be fixed until there's motivation to fix it.
Simply telling people to fix something that's mysterious (to them) that
does not appear to be affecting anything won't motivate fixes. When they
suddenly can't get to - for example - Facebook then they'll be highly
motivated. I know this won't happen in the real world, but I also see
this dragging on for years to come, if not another decade.

Anyway, I'd better stop before complain too much. ;)

~Seth