[6bone] v6 on slashdot

Colin Faber cfaber@fpsn.net
Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:03:41 -0700


<sarcasm>
Heh, Clearly these people are more on top of these than the 6bone
group. I guess I should stop reading the 6bone list and pay more
attention to slashdon't for all my IPv6 6bone related information from
now on :-)
</sarcasm>


> Dan Reeder wrote:
> 
> From today's Slashdot.org....
> ar32h writes "The 6bone is going to be phased out soon. This means all
> of us who have IP addresses or subnets beginning with 3ffe from tunnel
> brokers like Freenet6 are going to be sorry out of luck." According to
> the linked phaseout plan, "It is anticipated that under this phaseout
> plan the 6bone will cease to operate by July 1, 2006, with all 6bone
> prefixes fully reclaimed by the IANA," but there are a number of
> sub-deadlines along the way.
> 
> I don't know what to make of this... I can't help but feel that,
> without further public education (eg incite riots outside rir
> offices), the public non-nerdy perception of the whole IPv6 scene and
> technology is (was) nothing but a '.com gimmick'.
> 
> dan
> 
> 

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