"Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....

Thu Nov 29 00:42:33 UTC 2012

In message <CFB0F4DE-3E7E-4CC2-A491-3B0E9741CF38 at arbor.net>, "Dobbins, Roland" writes:
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Bj=F8rn Mork wrote:
> 
> > But I will absolutely refuse the idea that anyone incapable of getting 
> their application tested with IPv6 are able to create any useful 
> networking software.
> 
> Who's talking about 'networking software'? 

Read the Subject.

> 'Networking software' is irrelevant for the vast majority of the 
> userbase.  I'm talking about ordinary applications which do stupid things 
> like edit documents and calculate payroll runs.
> 
> The main points I've taken away from this discussion is that a 
> non-trivial proportion of ISP operational personnel have no idea what 
> life is like within the enterprise organizations which are their 
> customers; that they have a grossly exaggerated view of the skillsets, 
> levels of engagement, and degrees of empowerment amongst run-of-the-mill 
> software developers; and that they are either incapable of or are 
> unwilling to step down from the rarified atmospheres of the technical 
> heights they inhabit relative to the hoi polloi and even attempt to 
> understand the constraints under which they operate.
> 
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> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
> 
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> 
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