[Discuss] Happy World IPv6 Day to everyone

[bfp at gapps.blu.org (Blake Parker)]

The attached .PDF may be interesting to some.

*On June 8, more than 100 Web companies will work with ISPs and
content-delivery networks to conduct the first globalscale
trial of IPv6.
The Internet Society, an international

nonprofit organization that advises on Web standards, policy and education,
has

declared June 8 World IPv6 Day to give enterprises and ISPs a chance to
?stress

test? the next-generation Internet protocol to see what works, what breaks
and

what they need to do to seamlessly migrate their networks to IPv6. It?s also
a

wake-up call that it?s time to upgrade the World Wide Web.

On that day, more than 200

Web companies?including giants Facebook, Google and Yahoo?will work with

ISPs and content-delivery networks to

conduct the first global-scale trial of IPv6. For a 24-hour period,

participating companies around the world will enable IPv6 on their main

services.

The need for an IPv6 day has been looming for years. Ever since

the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority doled out the last remaining blocks
of

IPv4 addresses to the individual regional Internet registries in

February?signaling the depletion of available IP addresses?there has been a
lot

of discussion about adopting the next-generation networking protocol, IPv6.

While some major enterprises have already begun

the transition, there?s still confusion about what they have to do.

*
Enjoy,



-Blake

P.S.,* jabr, this isn't like a birthday and is not any excuse to celebrate
with an excessive-calories cake or three Big Mac's and a liter of flavored
sugar water. :-)*
*I think Jerry will agree.*


Blake Parker
Associate Director
Boston Linux & UNIX
Cambridge, MA

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