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What a terrible logo design, and semingly no real buy-in from any major organization. I'm not surprised this doesn't have any traction. I think an IPv6-complia

What a terrible logo design, and semingly no real buy-in from any major organization. I'm not surprised this doesn't have any traction. I think an IPv6-compliance logo scheme would be a good idea, but it should be driven by major commercial vendors like Apple, Microsoft, Google etc on the software side, and supported by industry forums like the WiFi Alliance and the GSM Association on the hardware side. I would love to be able to ditch IPv4 entirely for running large production networks. I think Apple have already started to enforce IPv6 support on iOS apps. It would also be interesting to audit open source projects for IPv6 support; just the presence of the appropriate API calls would probably be sufficient for a first hack to tell the difference between IPv6-compliant and non-IPv6 compliant applications. This would allow influential distros like Debian to start the process of deprecating old software which is incapable of working properly with modern networks.

V__ 3y ago
I'm really uncertain if this is not just some joke page. But I went to the ipv6 Forums page [1] und they have even more horrible logos/certificates and their websites looks like it might be made bevore ipv1 was a thing... [1] https://www.ipv6forum.com/ https://www.ipv6forum.com/
- djaychela 3y ago
  Complete with animated GIF version of the logo with rotating globe! That page is genuinely one of the worst I've seen in a long time... My wife thinks the logo looks like a CAPTCHA!
- MarkSweep 3y ago
  And somehow double tapping on the logos to zoom in in Safari on iOS 17.1 crashes the tab.
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  XHTML1.1, to give an idea who wrote that. And it's not even valid XHTML either, with <br> tags that aren't closed and missing closing tags every so often. Gonna say, I miss this era of the internet. It had character and a soul we just don't see anymore.
cassianoleal 3y ago
> What a terrible logo design Looks like something right out of MS WordArt from the 90s.
rgbrenner 3y ago
The about page says the logos have been available since 2003/2005. It looks exactly like a logo from 2003.. so I don't think it's terrible at the time it was designed... it's just dated. Old 2007 whitepaper: https://www.ipv6forum.com/dl/white/IPv6_Ready_Logo_White_Paper_Final.pdf https://www.ipv6forum.com/dl/white/IPv6_Ready_Logo_White_Pap... 2005 paper on getting the logo cert for the Linux kernel: https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2005/ols2005v2-pages-291-298.pdf https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2005/ols2005v2-pages-291-298.p... If you look at the approved products page and sort by date, you'll see Samsung, IBM, Cisco, Intel, ZTE, Nokia and lots of other tech companies--software and hardware. So clearly they were involved early on.
- meandmycode 3y ago
  Even by 2005 design standards this would be a terrible logo to be fair, it looks more mid 90s
  - jonhohle 3y ago
    Very 90s. I could imagine that logo on a 56k modem box.
- dehrmann 3y ago
  I was literally going to criticize it as "it looks like it was designed in 2000."
Macha 3y ago
Is it worth doing a brand refresh for a 15 year logo where the mission (hardware support for IPv6) is pretty much "mission accomplished"? It's been a little of the software side, and a lot of the operator side that is left for the gap.
BonoboIO 3y ago
I thought they were joking. What a logo. At least better than USB 3 Gen 2x2 XYZ Speed.
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  Unlike USB7 Gen5x3 HyperSpeed v9, the v6 in IPv6 actually fucking means something.
p1mrx 3y ago
> What a terrible logo design, and semingly no real buy-in from any major organization https://www.worldipv6launch.org/ https://www.worldipv6launch.org/ has better logos and corporate participation, though it's mostly a reference to the event on June 6 2012.
throw0101a 3y ago
> What a terrible logo design, and semingly no real buy-in from any major organization. Are Cisco, Huawei, Dell, HPE (Aruba), SUSE, Oracle, Nokia, ZTE, Red Hat, Panduit, Supermicro, National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA), VMware, Samsung, Arista, Juniper, DataDirect Networks (DDN Lustre), Sophos, Tencent Cloud Computing, Apple, etc, not 'major organizations'? Because they all have products on the IPv6 Ready Logo Program Approved List: * https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/?o=4 https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/?o=4 > I think an IPv6-compliance logo scheme would be a good idea, but it should be driven by major commercial vendors like […] Have you bothered to investigate what this program does actually does? Approval entails interoperability testing: the below Cisco against Arista and Juniper routers, and RHEL and Windows hosts. * https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/logo/02-C-002758/ https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/logo/02-C-0027... They submitted products earlier in October, and the above has just been approved as of today (2023/10/29).
- er4hn 3y ago
  What's worth noting is that this is driven by the US Fed Gov (spec. Department of Defense) as a way to get vendors onboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoD_IPv6_product_certification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoD_IPv6_product_certification. The govt takes a stance that most vendors can't be trusted on their word so everything to be purchased must undergo a certification process to ensure that it meets the baseline requirements.
  - throw0101a 3y ago
    > What's worth noting is that this is driven […] 'This' being IPv6(-only) functionality. "SUBJECT: Completing the Transition to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)" * https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/M-21-07.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/M-21-0...
- remram 3y ago
  Do any of those organizations display the logo on their website?

V__ 3y ago

I'm really uncertain if this is not just some joke page. But I went to the ipv6 Forums page [1] und they have even more horrible logos/certificates and their websites looks like it might be made bevore ipv1 was a thing... [1] https://www.ipv6forum.com/ https://www.ipv6forum.com/

djaychela 3y ago
Complete with animated GIF version of the logo with rotating globe! That page is genuinely one of the worst I've seen in a long time... My wife thinks the logo looks like a CAPTCHA!
MarkSweep 3y ago
And somehow double tapping on the logos to zoom in in Safari on iOS 17.1 crashes the tab.
Dalewyn 3y ago
XHTML1.1, to give an idea who wrote that. And it's not even valid XHTML either, with <br> tags that aren't closed and missing closing tags every so often. Gonna say, I miss this era of the internet. It had character and a soul we just don't see anymore.

cassianoleal 3y ago

> What a terrible logo design Looks like something right out of MS WordArt from the 90s.

rgbrenner 3y ago

The about page says the logos have been available since 2003/2005. It looks exactly like a logo from 2003.. so I don't think it's terrible at the time it was designed... it's just dated. Old 2007 whitepaper: https://www.ipv6forum.com/dl/white/IPv6_Ready_Logo_White_Paper_Final.pdf https://www.ipv6forum.com/dl/white/IPv6_Ready_Logo_White_Pap... 2005 paper on getting the logo cert for the Linux kernel: https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2005/ols2005v2-pages-291-298.pdf https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2005/ols2005v2-pages-291-298.p... If you look at the approved products page and sort by date, you'll see Samsung, IBM, Cisco, Intel, ZTE, Nokia and lots of other tech companies--software and hardware. So clearly they were involved early on.

meandmycode 3y ago
Even by 2005 design standards this would be a terrible logo to be fair, it looks more mid 90s
- jonhohle 3y ago
  Very 90s. I could imagine that logo on a 56k modem box.
dehrmann 3y ago
I was literally going to criticize it as "it looks like it was designed in 2000."

Macha 3y ago

Is it worth doing a brand refresh for a 15 year logo where the mission (hardware support for IPv6) is pretty much "mission accomplished"? It's been a little of the software side, and a lot of the operator side that is left for the gap.

BonoboIO 3y ago

I thought they were joking. What a logo. At least better than USB 3 Gen 2x2 XYZ Speed.

Dalewyn 3y ago
Unlike USB7 Gen5x3 HyperSpeed v9, the v6 in IPv6 actually fucking means something.

p1mrx 3y ago

> What a terrible logo design, and semingly no real buy-in from any major organization https://www.worldipv6launch.org/ https://www.worldipv6launch.org/ has better logos and corporate participation, though it's mostly a reference to the event on June 6 2012.

throw0101a 3y ago

> What a terrible logo design, and semingly no real buy-in from any major organization. Are Cisco, Huawei, Dell, HPE (Aruba), SUSE, Oracle, Nokia, ZTE, Red Hat, Panduit, Supermicro, National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA), VMware, Samsung, Arista, Juniper, DataDirect Networks (DDN Lustre), Sophos, Tencent Cloud Computing, Apple, etc, not 'major organizations'? Because they all have products on the IPv6 Ready Logo Program Approved List: * https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/?o=4 https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/?o=4 > I think an IPv6-compliance logo scheme would be a good idea, but it should be driven by major commercial vendors like […] Have you bothered to investigate what this program does actually does? Approval entails interoperability testing: the below Cisco against Arista and Juniper routers, and RHEL and Windows hosts. * https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/logo/02-C-002758/ https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/logo/02-C-0027... They submitted products earlier in October, and the above has just been approved as of today (2023/10/29).

er4hn 3y ago
What's worth noting is that this is driven by the US Fed Gov (spec. Department of Defense) as a way to get vendors onboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoD_IPv6_product_certification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoD_IPv6_product_certification. The govt takes a stance that most vendors can't be trusted on their word so everything to be purchased must undergo a certification process to ensure that it meets the baseline requirements.
- throw0101a 3y ago
  > What's worth noting is that this is driven […] 'This' being IPv6(-only) functionality. "SUBJECT: Completing the Transition to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)" * https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/M-21-07.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/M-21-0...
remram 3y ago
Do any of those organizations display the logo on their website?