World IPv6 Day?

[Fred Baker]

On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:

> 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.

Actually, it does happen in the real world. That's the reason for

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wing-v6ops-happy-eyeballs-ipv6
  "Happy Eyeballs: Trending Towards Success with Dual-Stack Hosts", Dan
  Wing, Andrew Yourtchenko, 25-Oct-10

and

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-bmwg-testing-eyeball-happiness
  "Testing Eyeball Happiness", Fred Baker, 14-Dec-10

We're working on motivating vendors to fix things. Some of the "vendors" are a little hard to find, though; a fellow sent me a note this morning describing a 1520 second delay in displaying a web page (Arin's, but likely irrelevant) using Firefox and Linux.