[Chapter-delegates] Guerilla marketing for IPv6

[Patrick Vande Walle]

... and on the same subject, there are those two important
announcements: 

IPv4 Internet addresses disabled by ICANT in 30 days -
Computer Weekly: http://bit.ly/cy5mfh 

First ISP to phase out IPv4 in
favour of IPv6: http://aaisp.net.uk/news-1-Apr-2010.html 

Finally, the Big
Day has arrived :-) 

Patrick 

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:54:13 +0200, "Hans
Peter Dittler"  wrote:    

Hello all, 

I wanted to forward this to you as
an example of great IPv6-promotion. 

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. 

(I have included a quick translation below, all
translation without any guarantee for correctness and completeness) 

Today
the online-version of the news of our major TV-network opened with the
headline 

"All IP-addresses now in use - ICANN going to switch off
root-servers". 

see
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/internetabschaltung100.html 

The text
reads as: 

Since more than ten years Internet-experts have warned, and now
it has happened - and much faster than expected: 

The
"Internet-government" ICANN has announced that the last free IP-addresses
has been given to distribution. 

Every device to be connected to the
Internet needs one - if it is a server, a smart-phone or an IP-TV. 

The
pictures on the page carry the subtitles: 

"Only few hours left to surf
the Internet" 

"In the Internet-free time you can continue to receive your
news via tageschau-teletext" 

"to receive news without
Internet-connectivity ARD-Aktuell has re-activated their telex-machines"


The text continues: 

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. 

Drastic Measures
required 

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." 

A Day without Network 

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. 

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. 

News-Coverage Guaranteed


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. 

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. 

Happy April fool day 

happy Easter 

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