The metric system has been legal in the US since 1895 when the US agreed to "adopt" it in exchange for France agreeing to Greenwich, England, for the Prime Meridian. Donald -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Otis [mailto:dotis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:17 PM To: John C Klensin Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum; ietf@xxxxxxxx; alh-ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: DHCP failures (was RE: Do you want to have more meetingsoutside US ?) On Jul 31, 2007, at 6:30 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > And, while I'm picking on DHCP because I personally had more > problems with it, I see IPv6 authconfig as being exactly the same > issue: we are telling the world that these things work and they > should be using them; if we can't make them work for our own > meetings... Whether one regards IPv6 as "ready for prime-time" depends upon location. IPv6 appears to represent a metric measurement in the only industrially developed nation, despite a 1975 act of Congress, still is using fahrenheit, ounce, pound, inch, feet, and mile. There will always be problems offering an excuse not to adopt change, even when the rest of world has. Oddly, a 2x4 is neither, but might be required to promote change. -Doug _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf