World IPv6 Day? [included bonus report on brokeness studies]

[Richard Hartmann]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 21:48, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

> Well, if content providers *really* cared about "not losing customers"
> they might try to actually create content that works without requiring
> flash and java and stuff...

I can't see anyone losing customers over Flash etc. Which is a pity, really.

Without wanting to wander too far off topic, Google's move in removing
H.264 from Chrome will hopefully prove helpful, in the long run. Flash
will be next, hopefully. And yes, one is built-in and the other a
plugin.

To get back on topic wrt IPv6 & the IPv6 day it's too little too late.
Still better than nothing, but meh.

If a day was needed, it should be the 6th of _every_ month, starting
February. Though that's still arguably too little. Especially as the
experiments by heise.de and others have shown that an AAAA does not
really break all that much. And _if_ stuff breaks, well, nothing like
a few thousand angry customers swamping 1st level support to get a
PHBs attention. Especially if their own Facebook or whatever stopped
working, as well.


<rant />,
Richard