[ipv6-wg] Thought for World IPv6 Day

Dmitri,

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Martin Millnert <millnert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm thinking that in order for maximizing productive yield of World
>> IPv6 Day as IPv6-believers would like, laying out the relevant steps
>> to take for ISPs, content providers and individual users in a
>> pedagogical manner could be cool (i.e highly useful).
>
> I think that most users don't really care about how IPv4/v6 works,
> they just want "the Internet" to work.  This is opposed to browsers,
> where users should actually understand the concept of e.g., tabs, in
> order to use them.  Advanced users can easily find technical articles
> about IPv6 at any time, for example (shameless self-promotion):
> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/655/Running_IPv6_in_practice

Note that I did not say the only audience of the comic would be end-users.

I think it's fair to say that the depth the Chrome comic goes to is
beyond what 99.999% of users care about, as well.
"Normal" users would probably be pretty satisfied with a summary
regarding Chrome that explained "New tabs method: independent, faster,
safer and crash less.".
What the comic does however is to document the product in a quite
unique and IMO very effective way.

Judging by how as few as 0.2% of Google's users have IPv6, I'd say
it's pretty fair to say that most ISPs world-wide don't *really* care
about IPv6 either, and a lot of them likely don't have a good idea how
to go about bringing it up, despite a complete myriad of available
(fragmented) information online.

I really do think a similar effort on "IPv6" could be valuable, even
if it was not completed by the first World IPv6 Day. In fact, it may
be more valuable if done well, than rushed for World IPv6 day.


Thanks!

Cheers,
Martin