"Maarten Dammers" <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote in message
news:4D32E0DE.8020700@mdammers.nl...
"""On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook,
Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight
Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer
their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test drive". The goal of the Test
Drive Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet
service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web
companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful
transition as IPv4 addresses run out. """
See
http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/ .
Shouldn't Wikimedia participate in this event? What needs to be done to
make this possible?
Maarten
I don't entirely understand the point of this. The plan seems to be
"""get
a large enough fraction of 'the internet' to make a change which breaks for
some people all at the same time, so that those people get angry with the
ISPs that haven't got off their arses to fix said breakage, rather than
angry with the broken sites""", which is fair enough. But AFAICT, the
breakage won't occur if your connection can't 'do' IPv6, but only if your
connection can't 'do' both IPv4 *and* IPv6 on the same site at the same
time. Surely that's not actually the problem that we need to solve if we're
to be able to migrate smoothly onto IPv6? When the IPv4 addresses run out,
we need to be able to start setting up websites which are *only* v6, surely?
--HM