[6bone] v6 on slashdot

[Dan Reeder]

But they more accurately represent the internet community Colin.
Sure, WE know that the phase out of the 6bone would be infact quite
beneficial (atleast in theory) to the ipv6 movement. But they dont. They can
(and are) very easily see it as the demise of IPv6 as a viable technology.
The same thing happened when microsoft decided not to offer their java vm
anymore... folks thought that java was doomed.

dan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Faber" <cfaber@fpsn.net>
To: "Dan Reeder" <dan@reeder.name>
Cc: <6bone@ISI.EDU>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [6bone] v6 on slashdot


> <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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