-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 12:21 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am sure someone would have said something like this about the QWERTY keyboard layout (which was designed to slow down the typist), non-QWERTY keyboards are still relatively uncommon in the English world.
Ah yes, the old yarn about qwerty. Only problem: other keyboard layouts aren't any faster. QWERTY will be with us, and the norm, forever. Because, unlike IPv6, switching keyboard schemes really doesn't offer any advantages.
Take a look at... http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10925456
History tends to show that the adoption of technology is not just about whether it is best, but also whether the technology addresses an important perceived need or provides a new service that there is a demand for, the cost of adopting it, and the vested interests involved.
Well, I don't know about "vested interests".
Which largely explains your apparent lack of grasp of the politics of and economics of change... But *Microsoft* now
*requires* IPv6 for some of there newest products and technologies [those products WILL NOT WORK with IPv4]. So those M$ shops WILL all be supporting IPv6. I congratulate M$ for this move, it is going to be a big driver in IPv6 adoption.
A device that does not support IPv4 in a transitional environment is at best problematic to deploy. (I remember having to disable IPv6 on M$ because of the grief it caused in a IPv4 environment). If M$ start loosing market share changes will be made and M$ has always responded to market needs when it could not dictate them. However, when M$ start being active in a particular area it is something to be red flagged, as they are notorious for being creative in the interpretation of standards.
Right, because a faster and more efficient Internet [IPv6 is *FASTER*] isn't of any interest to anyone.
Which do not really make a lot of difference to an end user when line speed and connection reliability are the key issues. A high speed sports car on a dirt track is just window dressing.
ICANN have got to shoot themselves in the organisational foot before this becomes an issue. There are lot of people who want the root name servers to be controlled outside of the US, and of course the US is unenthusiastic about the idea, blowing awayea large chunks of the network name space is not going to make friends and influence people..
What on earth does that have to do with IPv6?
More politics, the issues around who is actually in control could end up being a significant factor in how something is deployed. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyQopUACgkQasN0sSnLmgJyNACg46FuTe1mVBHY8bbAAfqy5lzA rZMAn2s+sXndxloOPbEU8rQT76F8C93T =p0DC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org