--- steve(a)focb.co.nz wrote: Scott Weeks wrote:

--- andy(a)nosignal.org wrote:---------------- ip is a means to an end, I don't craft packets for fun, I do work or have fun, and ip occurs as a way to send my messages from A to B. ---------------------------------------------

ding, ding, ding! From the many lists discussing these issues recently, we finally have a winner! Most folk don't care about v4, v6, v8 or v<insert stuff here>. They want to do something and they 'just want it to work'. 99.999% couldn't give less than a crap how that happens.

: or are you saying that there are only 65,250 clueful IP/IT : engineers in the world or people working in related fields ? This one. Clueful IP engineers in the world that also care about the version of IP used more than leaving a crap. :-) : Feel like citing references for your 99.999% figure ? It was just for fun and to make the point that most people in the world just don't care how stuff moves around the internet. They just want it to get to where they tell it to go. The five nines comes from many marketing-speak droids when telling everyone that their network has 5-nines of uptime. Of course with no more details than just that... <8-0 <== that's a crazy-eyed marketing droid babbling marketing-speak. scott