Facebook and IPv6 Day

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2011-Jun-08 16:07, Bill Owens wrote:
> I walked over to our IPv6-only workstation this morning and pulled up
> www.facebook.com, hoping that it would finally be able to see the
> Facebook website that we all know and love. Sadly, it gets the same
> fragment of HTML that was previously being served at
> www.v6.facebook.com, and is therefore still not usable.
> 
> I understand from the various PR sources that Facebook was one of the
> original group for IPv6 Day, and certainly they're listed in the top
> of the participating websites.

The main purposes of IPv6 day are:
 - get IPv6 known to the people
 - test the impact of how much 'hurt' it has to enable AAAA records
   (this due to expected breakage towards users caused by connectivity)

Indeed, they should make everything IPv6 capable, but World IPv6 Day is
just one little baby step to get there, at least these big guys&gals
(are there any 'female' websites partaking in World IPv6 Day?) might now
work up the nerve to do what a lot of others have done before them: just
enable AAAA records where possible.

IMHO the publicity, although meager and generally containing false info,
is the best thing coming out of this 24 hour test run, oh and the hope
they that they don't remove them.

Greets,
 Jeroen