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I can't believe everyone here agrees to this. This is an incredibly stupid idea for promoting a questionable technology that can't make it into the reality on

by mojuba 18y ago

I can't believe everyone here agrees to this. This is an incredibly stupid idea for promoting a questionable technology that can't make it into the reality on its own. If the technology is so "right" why isn't everyone switching to it (like IPv4, HTTP, etc)? Because there are problems with it: IPv6 is more complicated than needed for solving the problems it was meant to solve. And finally, advantages of IPv6 are so far only theoretical. And I just hope this experiment will remain unique in this industry.

mechanical_fish 18y ago
And I just hope this experiment will remain unique in this industry. It is far, far too late for that. Pron is often credited as the force that built the home video industry, for example. (Although I admit I've never seen actual data.) And I suspect that pron been a huge driver of broadband, er, penetration. Anyway, we "agree" to this because (a) it's not as if we can stop it by protesting; and (b) it's a hilarious promotional idea -- probably more for the pron company than for IPv6, but maybe for both. It's right up there with Diskette Day at the Carnegie-Mellon/CWRU football game in 1986. [1] I agree, though, that it's not especially likely to improve IPv6 deployment. IPv6 has been the technology of the future for a decade, and it may remain so for a while yet. [1] http://honesthypocrite.blogspot.com/2005/10/hail-carnegie-and-kiltie-band.html http://honesthypocrite.blogspot.com/2005/10/hail-carnegie-an...