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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I wanted to forward this to you as an
example of great IPv6-promotion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(I have included a quick translation below,
all translation without any guarantee for correctness and completeness)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Today the online-version of the news of our
major TV-network opened with the headline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>"All IP-addresses now in use - ICANN going
to switch off root-servers".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>see http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/internetabschaltung100.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The text reads as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Since more than ten years Internet-experts
have warned, and now it has happened - and much faster than expected:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The "Internet-government" ICANN has
announced that the last free IP-addresses has been given to distribution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Every device to be connected to the
Internet needs one - if it is a server, a smart-phone or an IP-TV.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The pictures on the page carry the subtitles:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>"Only few hours left to surf the
Internet"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>"In the Internet-free time you can
continue to receive your news via tageschau-teletext"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>"to receive news without
Internet-connectivity ARD-Aktuell has re-activated their telex-machines"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The text continues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Drastic Measures required<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A Day without Network<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>News-Coverage Guaranteed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Happy
April fool day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>happy
Easter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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