<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">And I will sign out of this thread with the below. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#666666">IP was originally created for end-to-end connectivity, but we’ve gotten away from that as Internet growth has taken off and added many technologies to help </font><b><font color="#990000">slow the consumption of IPv4</font></b><font color="#666666">. With IPv6, we’re able to return to end-to-end connectivity, and who knows what new technologies can then be created, with address shortages now a thing of the past?</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="4">It’s time to make the transition to IPv6. Don’t be left behind! </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><a href="https://code.facebook.com/posts/1192894270727351/ipv6-it-s-time-to-get-on-board/"><i>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1192894270727351/ipv6-it-s-time-to-get-on-board/</i></a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><b>Kevin</b><br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 November 2016 at 14:05, Kevin Kamonye <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.kamonye@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.kamonye@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That is</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#0b5394"> a good read Owen (including the contents of your mails, for sure!). Such needs wide circulation and prominence. </font></font></div><div><font color="#0b5394"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">They even seem to be having fun with it while we hang on to I just don't know what..</span><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444">IPv6 addresses aren't really supposed to spell out domain names, but Facebook has adopted an IPv6 addy that includes the characters "faceb00c."</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444">A quick DNS lookup of <a href="http://facebook.com" target="_blank">facebook.com</a> confirms this: the domain resolves to 2a03:2880:2130:cf05:face:b00c:<wbr>:1. Faceb00c. Get it?</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444">At The Reg's London office, we can’t agree on what we should think about that. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444"><a href="http://IPv6.BBC.co.uk" target="_blank">IPv6.BBC.co.uk</a> also resolves to 2001:4b10:bbc::1 and 2001:4b10:bbc::2, so maybe this is a thing now? What do you reckon?</font></div><div><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/08/facebook_casts_a_hex_on_dns/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2<wbr>015/07/08/facebook_casts_a_hex<wbr>_on_dns/</a></i><br></font></div><div><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#0b5394"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Well done to the team @</font></font><font color="#0b5394" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(61,133,198)"><font color="#3d85c6">.</font></span><b><font color="#ffffff" style="background-color:rgb(61,133,198)">face:b00c</font><font color="#3d85c6" style="background-color:rgb(61,133,198)">.</font></b></font><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#3d85c6" style="background-color:rgb(61,133,198)"><br></font></b></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And its not all just fun and games.. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,75,138);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,75,138);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2015/04/facebook-news-feeds-load-20-40-faster-over-ipv6/" target="_blank">Facebook News Feeds Load 20-40% Faster Over IPv6</a></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kevin</span></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 10 November 2016 at 23:05, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 9, 2016, at 23:14 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-interchange-newline"><div><p dir="ltr">If people want to deploy IPv6 they will do it but the compeling reason will eventually be competition as the motivation and nothing else.<br><br>Atleast folk i know who do it dont even dual stack in their core as the prefix basically just seats on their boader router facing their ISP for the purpose of announcing it and that is it.</p></div></blockquote></span>Really?<div><br></div><div>You don’t know very many people then… Here are some I know:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">www.facebook.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr>5de</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr>5de, icmp_seq=0 hlim=53 time=78.875 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr>5de, icmp_seq=1 hlim=53 time=76.036 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr>5de, icmp_seq=2 hlim=53 time=75.961 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://star-mini.c10r.facebook.com" target="_blank">star-mini.c10r.facebook.com</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 75.961/76.957/78.875/1.356 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.001u 0.003s 0:02.13 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">www.google.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004, icmp_seq=0 hlim=55 time=31.035 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004, icmp_seq=1 hlim=55 time=31.229 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4005:801::2004, icmp_seq=2 hlim=55 time=30.146 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">www.google.com</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 30.146/30.803/31.229/0.472 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.03 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">      </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.comcast.net" target="_blank">www.comcast.net</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2600:1406:34::b819:388d</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:34::b819:388d, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=35.388 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:34::b819:388d, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=35.445 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:34::b819:388d, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=30.565 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://a1526.dscg.akamai.net" target="_blank">a1526.dscg.akamai.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 30.565/33.799/35.445/2.287 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.05 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.netflix.com" target="_blank">www.netflix.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4, icmp_seq=0 hlim=43 time=50.512 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4, icmp_seq=1 hlim=43 time=50.382 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2620:108:700f::36ba:99e4, icmp_seq=2 hlim=43 time=50.202 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://www.latency.prodaa.netflix.com" target="_blank">www.latency.prodaa.netflix.com</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 50.202/50.365/50.512/0.127 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.004s 0:02.07 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://whitehouse.gov" target="_blank">whitehouse.gov</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2001:428:6402:19c::2add</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2001:428:6402:19c::2add, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=48.869 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2001:428:6402:19c::2add, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=49.243 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2001:428:6402:19c::2add, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=48.470 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://whitehouse.gov" target="_blank">whitehouse.gov</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 48.470/48.861/49.243/0.316 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.09 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.irs.gov" target="_blank">www.irs.gov</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50, icmp_seq=0 hlim=55 time=35.796 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50, icmp_seq=1 hlim=55 time=30.659 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:40:2bb::f50, icmp_seq=2 hlim=55 time=30.862 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://e3920.dscna.akamaiedge.net" target="_blank">e3920.dscna.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 30.659/32.439/35.796/2.375 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.003s 0:02.05 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.usda.gov" target="_blank">www.usda.gov</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2600:1406:1a:39a::500</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:39a::500, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=149.769 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:39a::500, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=147.715 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:39a::500, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=145.721 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://e1280.dscb.akamaiedge.net" target="_blank">e1280.dscb.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 145.721/147.735/149.769/1.653 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.004s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.juniper.net" target="_blank">www.juniper.net</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=148.142 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=150.608 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:3a0::720, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=145.517 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://e1824.dscb.akamaiedge.net" target="_blank">e1824.dscb.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 145.517/148.089/150.608/2.079 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Pinging <a href="http://www.cisco.com" target="_blank">www.cisco.com</a>: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr>4 --> 2600:1406:1a:389::90</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:389::90, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=145.665 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:389::90, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=145.943 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">16 bytes from 2600:1406:1a:389::90, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=145.636 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">--- <a href="http://e144.dscb.akamaiedge.net" target="_blank">e144.dscb.akamaiedge.net</a> ping6 statistics ---</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 145.636/145.748/145.943/0.138 ms</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">      </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">I know more, but I think that gets the point across.</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-"><blockquote type="cite"><div>So announcing an IPv6 prefix to an upstream provider imho doesnt cut it and its easy to do.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span>That’s true… Really deploying IPv6 is what is needed and it is happening with or without the African region.</div><div><br></div><div>Guess what happens in the rest of the world shortly after IPv6 is sufficiently deployed that IPv4 stragglers are no longer considered sufficiently relevant to justify the costs?</div><div><br></div><div>Don’t believe me… Read this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-study-facebook-moving-to-an-ipv6-only-internal-network/" target="_blank"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline">​​</div>http://www.internetsociety.org<wbr>/deploy360/resources/case-stud<wbr>y-facebook-moving-to-an-ipv6-o<wbr>nly-internal-network/</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is from 2014… They’ve continued to progress down the turn off IPv4 internally road since then.</div><div><br></div><div>AWS and Microsoft Azure have now deployed IPv6 support for their cloud platforms.</div><div><br></div><div>Amazon’s ROUTE53 DNS service now has IPv6 support.</div><div><br></div><div>If you truly want to see the African region able to meaningfully interact with the internet going forward, focusing on IPv4 will not serve you well.</div><span class="m_7844692470106166532gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><br></font></span></div></div><br></div></div><span class="">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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