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June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-break-it-you-bought-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On 8 June 2011 many companies (big and small) enabled IPv6 to their main web sites by published AAAA records; 24 hours later, almost all of them disabled it after the test was done. This year, on June 6th, many of those same companies (Google, Bing, Facebook) will be enabling IPv6 again, but this time there won't be any going back. In addition to content providers, several ISPs are also participating: Comcast, AT&T, XS4ALL, KDDI, and others. CDNs Akamai and Limelight are on board, as well as network equipment manufacturers Cisco and D-Link. Is the chicken-and-egg problem of IPv6 finally, slowly coming to an end?"

6 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 1, Funny

    Especially at home. Who's with me?

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    This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
    1. Re:I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... by Nursie · · Score: 5, Funny

      Viva la revoluzione, my friend but seriously...are you going to hold out forever?

      Hell Yes!

      If enough of us do it, those profiteering assholes at Big Internet$ will be forced to deal with us on our terms and open up all that extra space they're holding out on.

      What extra space you say? Ever heard of a number greater than 255?

      It's a conspiracy I tell you. They're all in it! Google, Micro$oft, IBM, The Queen, the Vatican, the Getty's, the Rothchild's and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up! They're trying to keep our eyes shut to the truth!

      Wake up! We have all the IPv4 addresses we need! Why at home all my machiens in the 478.921.357.* range!

    2. Re:I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... by gmhowell · · Score: 5, Funny

      I see you missed the Freemasons. Your oversight is why they will continue to screw you over.

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      Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  2. IPv6 Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those of you who don't know anything about IPv6, here's the Wikipedia page for it:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6/

    Happy reading!

    1. Re:IPv6 Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Seeing how they can barely handle HTML, CSS and Javascript, IPv6 might be asking too much of them.

  3. Yes! by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been waiting a long time for this.

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1487194&cid=30529330