When people use alternate TLDs, they are labeled "alt" and people declare that those people are not connected to *THE* Internet. The "alt people" are ridiculed for having a small share of the market. Some people tell the "alt people" to run along and find another sand-box to play in. This does not seem to happen with IPv6 sales people.
It has been confirmed by IPv6 users that they are not connected to the Internet. IPv4 systems can not talk to native IPv6 systems. It would appear that IPv6 is some sort of "alt protocol" movement. The IPv6 people have their own root-servers, yet, ICANN and the IETF claim that there can only be one true-root. IPv6 sales people do not seem to be concerned about this. IPv6 sales people also do not seem to be concerned about the IPv6 Privacy Problem. While all of this is going on, IPv4 users are quite happy and can now expand their addressing with no change required to the equipment that connects them. The .BIZ TLD is now considered not to be "alt", it once was. It appears that the "consensus" of the Internet community is to move forward with the evolution of IPv4. There is a lot of room for expansion. The "alt protocol" people appear to be determined to fragment the Internet. It is unclear why ICANN and the IETF do not declare that there is "one true protocol" along with their "one true root". Maybe that would lead to the declaration that there is "one true address space" ? Jim Fleming http://www.IPv8.info ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:45 AM Subject: ad hoc list created to discuss v6 usage measurement > > I've been trying to get a bunch of statistics together on v6 usage > growth and have found that few people are collecting serious > statistics. I thought I'd start a small discussion on the subject -- > accurate statistics are important to demonstrate that v6 is indeed > deploying and that people should spend time and money on preparing and > deploying their own networks. > > I've set up an ad hoc list, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to host the > discussion. Subscribe via [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Perry > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
