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May 07, 2007
Proposal for IPv6 Day (again)
While it still might be both highly impractical and idealistic to think that we can empower a movement for what hopefully will be known as IPv6 day, for the sake of the future of the internet and for the future viability of IP Communications, the time has come to push for this to happen, and hopefully happen sometime in 2007. (I first proposed this back in 2002).
Collectivity we should pick a day, at some point in the near and foreseeable future and push everyone to reboot themselves and make it such that from that point forward, IPv6 will be supported on all networks which interact with the public Internet.
Some of the issues we face as an industry in traversing NATs and Firewalls and security could be more easily solved when/if this day happens.
I'm not sure an act of Congress will make this day happen in the United States any faster than getting the collective will of the people behind this action, but we should all be doing everything we can to make sure that IPv6 is supported across the public internet.
Thoughts/comments/suggestions?: please email: jeffp@pulver.com.
Tags: ipv6, internet, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on May 7, 2007 06:38 AM | Permalink
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Comments
I know that the federal government has a June 2008 date for transition of all government servers to IPv6, but I am a bit doubtful.
Posted by: John Thacker at May 8, 2007 09:27 AM
I think this is a great idea. We'll commit to providing a free SIP-based softphone (xlite) that will support ipv6 on the day.
Posted by: Jason at May 7, 2007 08:39 PM
And the business case for migration to IPv6 is....???
Posted by: Irwin Lazar at May 7, 2007 05:43 PM
You want to pick a date for the world's largest rolling software upgrade? Hooboy... :)
Posted by: Doug Mohney at May 7, 2007 03:07 PM