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Re: Another driver for v6?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Thu Oct 30 11:55:15 2008

From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
To: David W. Hankins <David_Hankins@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081030154738.GA5482@isc.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:55:01 +0000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


On 30 Oct 2008, at 15:47, David W. Hankins wrote:

> If someone can't reach the hypothetical A/AAAA www.google.com RRset,
> you've just increased your support costs.  "My network is slow."
> "Are you using IPv4 or IPv6?" "Netscape."

Do you think that industry should be working to some kind of well  
supported / worldwide flag day when lots of popular resources add v6  
records at the same time ?

In the same way that in the UK, appliance manufacturers have been  
educating people about the analogue terrestrial TV switchoff by 2012,  
do you think that we should be advocating a 'internet PLUS day' some  
time in (date plucked from the air) 2014 ?

-a


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