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Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Chown)
Fri Jun 3 05:29:59 2011

From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:29:42 +0100
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On 3 Jun 2011, at 01:08, andrew.wallace wrote:

> World <anything> day is a sure-shot bet win at an anti-climax, and an =
industry failure and waste of investment and publicity campaign.

The day passing without any significant userland issues would make it a =
success.

It's a good opportunity to ensure you have the right measurement tools =
in place so you can learn something from the day. For sites that have =
dual-stack deployed, a one-day peek into the future where perhaps 15% or =
more of external traffic will be IPv6 is pretty useful, given it's =
currently 1% or less.

Tim



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