[141081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jima)
Thu Jun 2 19:21:30 2011
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:20:58 -0500
From: Jima <nanog@jima.tk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2011-06-02 17:26, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2533454/
>
> Uh...
While I'm far from a Microsoft apologist (not really even a fan, TBH),
it's worth pointing out that they're not pushing this out via Windows
Update or anything. It's intended only as a remedy for the (as they
themselves claim) <0.1% of users who may encounter issues next Wednesday:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ipv6/archive/2011/02/11/ipv6-day.aspx
Fun as it might be to take it out of context, at least they're not
telling people to disable IPv6 entirely (like some organizations still are).
Jima
