[Chapter-delegates] World IPv6 Day - on what Google, Yahoo and Facebook could do in a day.

[Sivasubramanian M]

Hello

On 8 June, 2011,
Google<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-ipv6-day-firing-up-engines-on-new.html>
> , Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/world-ipv6-day-solving-the-ip-address-chicken-and-egg-challenge/484445583919>
> , Yahoo! <http://www.yahoo.com/>, Akamai <http://www.akamai.com/ipv6> and Limelight
> Networks<http://blog.llnw.com/2011/01/ready-to-celebrate-world-ipv6-day-we-are/>will
> be amongst some of the major organisations<http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/participants/> that
> will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”  On June 8
> the websites listed here will offer their content over IPv6. We will display
> a status dashboard indicating the IPv6 status on this day.



If these organizations can be persuaded a little further, this IPv6
Awareness creating exercise can be positively converted into a POSITIVE
DRIVE to migrate to IPv6. This can happen if Google, Facebook and Yahoo
offers their content for a 24 hour period on this day on an IPv6 ONLY
websites.

It will work like this:

If the user is on a IPv6 network, the home page works and the user is
greeted with a message that says "You are accessing facebook on IPv6", the
page features some info about World IPv6 day, provides links, and then the
rest of the user's experience with facebook that day is normal

If the user accesses facebook from an IPv4 network, the FRONT page says,
"This facebook page today is on IPv6. You are accessing this page from an
IPv4 network, says some summary info about World IPv6 Day, about IPv6 and
then shows a prominent link for accessing facebook on IPv4, and the rest of
the user's experience is normal.

The idea of this approach is to leave the user momentarily on an IPv6 only
page to give him the experience of a day in future when part of the Internet
will not bother to be on IPv4. This would be more like inserting a page
redirect page in place of a home page, the user has the additional 'touble'
of clicking on a link before landing up on the normal facebook home page.

If facebook, Google, Yahoo and other responsible Web companies do this for a
day, a billion people will actually understand that they on IPv4 and
understand that it is becoming obsolete.

This is just a thought. May be this is what is planned already ?

Sivasubramanian M
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