if only Cugnot's team had promoted cars .... As Harald put it wisely first, the organization and promotion is not upto IETF but to sales, Govs, operators, users, etc... IETF and ICANN are actually blocking IPv6 as it is widely perceived for what it still is: a non-operational (if you compre to TV, mobiles, cars, McDonnald, Bible or CDs), not warranted technical upgrade. A suggestion, not a mass product.
Just point me one single site dedicated to a clear "Why, How Much and HowTo Switch to v6", for end-users.
If cars were still reserved to losers and technologists, I am not sure they would be widely used.
jfc
At 14:36 18/11/2004, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:40:56 -0500 (EST) From: jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Noel Chiappa) Message-ID: <20041118124056.0A28986AE6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Not even my powers of pithy commentary can scale the heights needed to | adequately comment on the fact that we've now consumed more than twice | *that* much time.
Hmm - the auto analogy is perhaps not a bad one. Cars were invented in what - about 1880? And how long did it take before just about everyone was using one? Or even before they were really widespread?
Designing new stuff isn't that hard (IPv6 was done for all practical purposes years & years ago now) - getting it widely adopted is an entirely different problem and can take a very long time - which says nothing at all about either the value of, or the need for, the new stuff. Nor does it prevent their being plenty of people who are quite convinced, for whatever reason, that the new stuff isn't necessary or useful, and they're going to keep using the old forever.
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