<p>... and on the same subject, there are those two important announcements:</p>
<p>IPv4 Internet addresses disabled by ICANT in 30 days - Computer Weekly: http://bit.ly/cy5mfh</p>
<p>First ISP to phase out IPv4 in favour of IPv6: http://aaisp.net.uk/news-1-Apr-2010.html</p>
<p>Finally, the Big Day has arrived :-)</p>
<p>Patrick</p>
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<p>On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:54:13 +0200, "Hans Peter Dittler" <dittler@isoc.de> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I wanted to forward this to you as an example of great IPv6-promotion.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Apologies to all who are not fluent readers of German, but I think this idea is too good to be only known to readers in Germany.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Today the online-version of the news of our major TV-network opened with the headline<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>"All IP-addresses now in use - ICANN going to switch off root-servers".<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>see http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/internetabschaltung100.html<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Since more than ten years Internet-experts have warned, and now it has happened - and much faster than expected:<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The "Internet-government" ICANN has announced that the last free IP-addresses has been given to distribution.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Every device to be connected to the Internet needs one - if it is a server, a smart-phone or an IP-TV.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The pictures on the page carry the subtitles:<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>"Only few hours left to surf the Internet"<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>"In the Internet-free time you can continue to receive your news via tageschau-teletext"<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>"to receive news without Internet-connectivity ARD-Aktuell has re-activated their telex-machines"<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Especially requests from China have been the cause for an increase in demand of registrations said ICANN-president Paul Twomey (here they were lagging a little bit behind?). Addresses have been gone so quickly that even experts from ICANN were caught by surprise. Appeals by institutions like Bundesnetzagentur (German equivalent to US FCC) to return unused IP-addresses have resulted in nearly no returns.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Drastic Measures required<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Since long time a technical solution is available, the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) multiplies the number of usable addresses. Widespread implementation fails over and over because of battles over responsibility and financing. "Governments as well as suppliers of hardware and software have been sabotaging our efforts for a soft migration. Now he have to accept the consequences." said Twomey. Similar thoughts can be read in an Interview with computer-expert Jörg Schieb (the name Schieb means delay , the interview can be found at http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/internetabschaltung102.html, which is then linked to page http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/internetabschaltung104.html where the text is marked as April fool and some funny older April fool videos are linked). " Too many people have been thinking: who cares? A fatal error as it appears now."<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The consequences have to be carried out by the users: Tomorrow at midnight US-west coast (9AM MESZ) ICANN will shut off the root-servers of the Internet to migrate to IPv6. As far as planning goes it is expected that for 24 hours there will be no services usable on the Internet round the world. We want to use the reduction of Internet-traffic during the Easter-weekend for the work said Twomey. After that change all IP-addresses will be re-distributed from scratch and computers already equipped with IPv6 will start to be reachable again.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Operating systems like Windows Vista or 7 or the Macintosh OS 10.6.2 have IPv6 already implemented. Users of older systems like Windows XP will stay offline after the change.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">News-Coverage Guaranteed<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Tagesschau.de (the online portal of the TV-news in German channel 1) is well prepared for the transition: "we have expanded our video-text (=teletext) editorial-staff to be able to continue working and inform the public" said editorial chief Joerg Sadrozinski. "To our luck we have kept several old telex-machines which enable us to receive news without Internet-access." Additionally we plan every half hour an special news-report in TV.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>We will use the Internet-free time to update all hardware and software in our editorial office, continued Sadrosinski. Will the outage of the Internet continue for longer time, we will provide a FAX-call-in-service for news. Additionally online-editorial staff without working possibility on the Internet will be made reachable via a phone-hotline to be asked about current news. Users of German Telekom T-Online services will be able to use a text version of the tageschau.de news page as long as they still have a version of BTX (old text-based communication service, phased out officially 2001) installed on their computers.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Happy April fool day<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">happy Easter<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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