<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 11, 2016, at 03:05 , Kevin Kamonye <<a href="mailto:kevin.kamonye@gmail.com" class="">kevin.kamonye@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">That is</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font color="#0b5394" class=""> a good read Owen (including the contents of your mails, for sure!). Such needs wide circulation and prominence. </font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">They even seem to be having fun with it while we hang on to I just don't know what..</span><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444" class="">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 class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444" class="">A quick DNS lookup of <a href="http://facebook.com/" class="">facebook.com</a> confirms this: the domain resolves to 2a03:2880:2130:cf05:face:b00c:<wbr class="">:1. Faceb00c. Get it?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444" class="">At The Reg's London office, we can’t agree on what we should think about that. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444" class=""><a href="http://ipv6.bbc.co.uk/" class="">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></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I think if you give people the opportunity to be cute, some of them will.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you have a name that happens to fit within the first 6 letters of the English alphabet, then you’re golden and you can encode it in your IPv6 address if you like.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Meh, whatever… As long as you’re deploying IPv6, I don’t care what you spell with your addresses.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My default gateway on all my subnets at home is prefix::dead:beef for humor’s sake.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>However, we are straying off the policy topic here.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">And its not all just fun and games.. </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,75,138);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,75,138);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2015/04/facebook-news-feeds-load-20-40-faster-over-ipv6/" target="_blank" class="">Facebook News Feeds Load 20-40% Faster Over IPv6</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Truth.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 November 2016 at 23:05, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" class="">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span class="gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 9, 2016, at 23:14 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">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 class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You don’t know very many people then… Here are some I know:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">4 --> 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr class="">5de</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">16 bytes from 2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c::2<wbr class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://star-mini.c10r.facebook.com/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.001u 0.003s 0:02.13 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.03 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.comcast.net/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://a1526.dscg.akamai.net/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.05 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.netflix.com/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://www.latency.prodaa.netflix.com/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.004s 0:02.07 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://whitehouse.gov/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://whitehouse.gov/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.09 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.irs.gov/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e3920.dscna.akamaiedge.net/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.003s 0:02.05 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.usda.gov/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e1280.dscb.akamaiedge.net/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.004s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.juniper.net/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e1824.dscb.akamaiedge.net/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="gmail-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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Pinging <a href="http://www.cisco.com/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2620::930:0:380a:e409:25b4:101<wbr class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,231,0);background-color:rgb(0,1,2)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">--- <a href="http://e144.dscb.akamaiedge.net/" target="_blank" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">0.000u 0.002s 0:02.17 0.0%<span class="gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-m_4115256821752386708Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">I know more, but I think that gets the point across.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">So announcing an IPv6 prefix to an upstream provider imho doesnt cut it and its easy to do.</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span>That’s true… Really deploying IPv6 is what is needed and it is happening with or without the African region.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don’t believe me… Read this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-study-facebook-moving-to-an-ipv6-only-internal-network/" target="_blank" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"></div>http://www.internetsociety.org<wbr class="">/deploy360/resources/case-stud<wbr class="">y-facebook-moving-to-an-ipv6-o<wbr class="">nly-internal-network/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is from 2014… They’ve continued to progress down the turn off IPv4 internally road since then.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AWS and Microsoft Azure have now deployed IPv6 support for their cloud platforms.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amazon’s ROUTE53 DNS service now has IPv6 support.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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="gmail-m_2652220964166739755m_-3850446110577110774gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></font></span></div></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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