While one aging application does not constitute 'the Internet', this should be taken as an early indicator of things that are happing, with more to come. http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/ Like it or not, the IETF must stop wasting time and effort building new structures on a crumbling framework. A quick scan of the IESG document queue shows that the vast majority of the workload is still not seriously focused on making IPv6 the default protocol. Happy new year, Tony