Why no IPv6-only day (Was: Protocol-41 is not the only tunneling protocol)

Gregory Edigarov greg at bestnet.kharkov.ua
Mon Jun 6 08:53:51 UTC 2011


On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:58:05 -0500
Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Brandon Butterworth
> <brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> [snip]
> > This W6D is about turning v6 on. At some point, many years from now,
> > when everyone has got bored of supporting legacy v4 for a hand full
> > of legacy users there might be a v6 only day where we turn v4 off
> > to test if it can be generally ceased.
> 
> Or maybe at some point a year or so from now...  display a warning to
> all users accessing the site over IPv4;  reminding them of the need
> to upgrade their internet connection to IPv6  in order to be able to
> access new 'premium' content :-)
Hope it will NEVER happen 




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