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Hello,

ML wrote:
> IPv6 Hipsters..Doing it before it was cool.

I'm afraid I'm still doing it before it's cool. )-;

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I'm an IPv6 pioneer, because I did it the year, you could really go IPv6 only. That was when ICANN put IPv6 glue in the root zone, which fell a few days before the IETF did an IPv4 blackout.

I thank Russ to come up with this IPv4 blackout, because it certainly encouraged ICANN to get its act and Google to do ipv6.google.com. I'm not sure which came first in this story, but for me IPv6 left research to production on that year. The problem it should have happened 5 years earlier, now everyone is struggling to catch up...

This is the year also IETF (and carriers, vendors,...) started to realize all the issues that were left to tackle.

People before that were Mavericks!

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I'm an IPv6 pioneer, because I did it the year, you could really go
IPv6 only. That was when ICANN put IPv6 glue in the root zone, which
fell a few days before the IETF did an IPv4 blackout.

I thank Russ to come up with this IPv4 blackout, because it certainly
encouraged ICANN to get its act and Google to do ipv6.google.com.

Insofar as I am aware the first "ipv6 hour" was the brainchild of Randy
Bush and Mark Tinka at apricot 2008. Not experienced first at the IETF.

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https://wiki.tools.isoc.org/IETF71_IPv4_Outage March 2008

Apricot 2008 was in Feb 2008

there was also an IPv6 hour at NANOG 42 in February 2008

But Russ spoke about it in 2007, knowing there will be resistance... And they must have been all talking to each others, so I'm not sure who to credit for the idea, but I can credit Russ for his IETF leadership in making it happen there.

ICANN had just put the glue in February.

Google decided to make it in time, seeing the opportunity and convergence of will.

Anyhow the year it all happened was 2008, there was a convergence of ideas.

So I would say since 2008 we have made great progress on IPv6 deployment, but we started very late...

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Wouldn't it be better to leave such labels and judgements to future generations? I'm sure they'll be the best judge of who led them to paradise /ruin.

-dorian