[140452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 foot-dragging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed May 11 13:44:27 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0C9E31DC@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 19:44:14 +0200
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11 mei 2011, at 19:32, George Bonser wrote:
>> If the results of world IPv6 day are as we expect and only 0.1 - 0.2 =
%
>> or less of all people have problems, I think the best way forward =
would
>> be to have a second world IPv6 day where we again enable IPv6 =
industry-
>> wide but this time we don't turn it off again.
> 0.1% of users is a HUGE number if you have 1,000,000 subscribers. Are
> you prepared to field 1,000 helpdesk calls or lose 1,000 customers?
Apparently "we" are, at least for the former, otherwise there wouldn't =
be an IPv6 day.
> It isn't something you just throw out there on a whim and tell people =
to
> like it or lump it if there are potentially a lot of people involved.
So what's the alternative? Never change anything?
Remember, this is al extremely trivial stuff: most things won't even =
completely stop working. And a few mouseclicks (yes, you have to know =
which ones so the helpdesks better start figuring that out) and you're =
back to normal. Compare this to turning off analog TV transmitters that =
have been running for decades where people have to buy converter boxes =
and sometimes even install antennas on their roof to keep using the =
service.=
