Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet

Mon Oct 1 15:53:13 UTC 2007

A number of people have bemoaned the lack of any IPv6-only 
killer-content that would drive a demand for IPv6. I've thought about 
this, and about the government's push to make IPv6 a reality. What 
occurred to me is there is a satellite sitting in storage that would 
provide such content:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triana_(satellite)

Al Gore pushed for this satellite, Triana, to provide those on earth 
with a view of the planet among its scientific goals. The Republicans 
referred to it as an "overpriced screen saver," though the effect 
even of just the camera component on people's lives and how they 
treat the planet could be considerable.

By combining the launch of Triana with feeding the still images and 
video from servers only connected to native IPv6 bandwidth, the 
government would provide both a strong incentive for end users to 
want to move to IPv6, and a way to get the people of this planet to 
stop from time to time and ponder the future of the earth.

Of course getting this done any time soon would require getting the 
present administration to reverse its bias against Triana and global 
warming. But it seemed to me an interesting way to advance two goals 
in synergy.

Dan
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Daniel Senie                                        dts at senie.com
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