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

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Hello Siva, 

While this sounds fine for techies, I guess 98% of
the Internet users do not know what IPv6 is, even less why they need it
and how they should proceed to "get" IPv6. Too much information in the
hands of those who cannot understand it is worse than no information at
all. 

The bottom line for Google and al is to make this IPv6 day as
less painful as possible for those 98% of users. 

Kind regards,


Patrick 

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:14:23 +0530, Sivasubramanian M wrote:


> Hello 
> 
>> On 8 June, 2011, Google [1], Facebook [2], Yahoo! [3],
Akamai [4] and Limelight Networks [5]will be amongst some of the major
organisations [6] 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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Links:
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[1]
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-ipv6-day-firing-up-engines-on-new.html
[2]
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/world-ipv6-day-solving-the-ip-address-chicken-and-egg-challenge/484445583919
[3]
http://www.yahoo.com/
[4] http://www.akamai.com/ipv6
[5]
http://blog.llnw.com/2011/01/ready-to-celebrate-world-ipv6-day-we-are/
[6]
http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/participants/
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