Preparations for World IPv6 Day
Morning everyone, At a recent NZ IPv6 Task Force meeting it was suggested that a message be sent to industry groups encouraging technical communication with support staff in the days leading up to World IPv6 Day. World IPv6 Day, a 24 hour period on the 8th of June UTC, is to test the readiness of the Internet for widespread IPv6 adoption. Popular sites like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo will be testing that day. When they do so, the overwhelming majority of our customers should not experience any difficulty accessing those and other participating sites. Nevertheless, a small fraction of our customers may experience problems due to issues with your computer or home network (estimated at roughly 0.05% of users worldwide). If you haven't already got an IPv6 support program then you may want to consider what additional skills and information your front-line and escalation staff may need on the day. Of the 0.05% of users expected to experience problems, the majority of those may be due to running outdated OS versions. You may want to communicate to your staff which versions of popular operating systems work as expected. There are a variety of websites available to predict if users will experience problems, one of which is: http://www.test-ipv6.com For more information on World IPv6 Day you can visit the following websites http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/ http://ipv6.org.nz Regards, Dean
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Dean Pemberton