RE: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

At 22:58 -0800 12/14/07, Christian Huitema wrote:
>>  >Maybe reports of "the DNS is broken when you do go to pure IPv6" are
>>  >more valuable than "you can only go to IPv6 if you jump through these
>>  >hoops that only advanced Internet users can do".
>>
>>  Is the IETF afraid to eat it's own food?
>>  Or is it willing to do what's necessary (in the interim) to adjust to
>>  the new cuisine?
>
>Our networking team at Microsoft did run an "IPv6 only" trial during
>the development of Windows Vista. Volunteers only. The volunteers would
>disable the IPv4 stacks on their PC, and then attempt to go on with their
>normal work, both for internal applications such as corporate mail, file
>servers, or intranet servers, and for external applications, mostly web
>based. It worked, but it had to rely on a set of transport proxies for those
>internal applications that were not yet IPv6 ready, and of course web proxies
>for internal access.

(keeping with my food-based theme)

Learning from others' taste testing is good.  But it's better to 
taste it "your=IETF"self. ;)

As someone else said - I bet these were willing volunteers.
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