> 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?
>

While the world transitions, some people won't have IPv6 at all, only
IPv4. We need to support both for a while.

And to answer the question of this thread, yes, we do hope to participate.

Respectfully,

Ryan Lane

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