"Maarten Dammers" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > """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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
