[141329] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Palmer)
Tue Jun 7 18:34:25 2011
From: Christopher Palmer <Christopher.Palmer@microsoft.com>
To: Jima <nanog@jima.tk>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:33:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4DE81ADA.3010806@jima.tk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We're very concerned about permanently configuring hosts into a non-standar=
d state. That is one reason our World IPv6 Day fix is only a temporary modi=
fication of the Windows sorting order and isn't being pushed through Window=
s Update.
Permanently disabling IPv6 as a solution to the "IPv6 brokenness" issue is =
NOT recommended. Turning a transitory problem (hosts on broken networks) in=
to a permanent problem (hosts that don't use IPv6 correctly) - risks creati=
ng a serious long-term headache.
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Christopher.Palmer@Microsoft.com=20
Program Manager=20
IPv6 @ Windows
-----Original Message-----
From: Jima [mailto:nanog@jima.tk]=20
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 4:21 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
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 cl=
aim) <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 tellin=
g people to disable IPv6 entirely (like some organizations still are).
Jima
