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RE: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

  • From: Scott Morris
  • Date: Tue Apr 10 10:07:31 2007

HAHAHAHAHA  I always knew that this stuff was the most prevalent and
billable content on the web, but I never thought of using it as a motivating
factor for chage!

Good one!

Scott
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Stephane Bortzmeyer
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:55 AM
To: J. Oquendo
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground


On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:15:34PM -0500,  J. Oquendo <[email protected]>
wrote  a message of 24 lines which said:

> was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec 
> and IPv6 technologies in space."

Any human on board? Because he would have been able to access useful
content:

http://www.ipv6experiment.com/

The great chicken or the egg dilemma. IPv6 has had operating system and
router support for years. But, content providers don't want to deploy it
because there aren't enough potential viewers to make it worth the effort.
There are concerns about compatibility and breaking IPv4 accessibility just
by turning IPv6 on. ISPs don't want to provide IPv6 to end users until there
is a killer app on IPv6 that will create demand for end users to actually
want IPv6. There hasn't been any reason for end users to want IPv6 -
nobody's dumb enough to put desirable content on IPv6 that isn't accessible
on IPv4. Until now.

We're taking 10 gigabytes of the most popular "adult entertainment" videos
from one of the largest subscription websites on the internet, and giving
away access to anyone who can connect to it via IPv6. No advertising, no
subscriptions, no registration. If you access the site via IPv4, you get a
primer on IPv6, instructions on how to set up IPv6 through your ISP, a list
of ISPs that support IPv6 natively, and a discussion forum to share tips and
troubleshooting. If you access the site via IPv6 you get instant access to
"the goods".