[ipv6-wg] Re: [address-policy-wg] DRAFT: RIPE Community Resolution on IPv4 Depletion and Deployment of IPv6

> I would like to remind you that this list is not intended to 
> get into contests on who has a better website (unless of 
> course it is not reachable over ipv6 ;-)).

This is not a contest. This is about improving the availability of
educational resources to help ISPs implement IPv6. There is far too much
information about IPv6 scattered over too many sites and books. A lot of
that information is old and out of date, or it is of dubious quality
because somebody has an axe to grind such as the people who want to
assign their customers /120 blocks to "conserve addresses". We need some
editorial review of the existing material so that people know what
sites/books/people they can trust.

Jordi and I are communicating privately to get the IPv6 Task Force
website fixed so that people can actually access the information on that
site. And we will include links to some of that material on the ARIN
IPv6 educational wiki http://www.getipv6.info

I believe that this is all worthy of discussion on this list since it
helps prepare for the coming IPv6 implementation crunch.

--Michael Dillon

P.S. IPv6 is *NOT* IPv4 with more bits. It is a different protocol from
IPv4 with a different addressing architecture and numerous different
approaches to networking problems. You have to make some serious effort
to learn and understand it.