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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Dear colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Wednesday June 8th is World IPv6 Day (W6D) during which
Google, Youtube, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing, Xbox.com, Akamai, Limelight and
many others will turn on IPv6 on their web services, which should include
webmail services, for 24 hours.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>This is organised by ISOC, <A
title="http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/ CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/">http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/</A> ,
and was originally suggested by Google last year. <FONT face=Calibri>If
your company is participating on this day by enabling IPv6 services then please
let us all know.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Major websites, which now run in IPv4-only mode, will
run in Dual-Stack mode on that day only, and most internet users will not sense
a change as few have IPv6 connectivity. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>However, a</FONT><FONT face=Calibri>ll recent
Windows and Mac OS X systems give preference to IPv6 over IPv4 for
reaching content, so when content is available on IPv6 then the few
computers (or routers) with misconfigured 6to4, ISATAP and Teredo
services can cause issues, mainly long delays and timeouts on reaching web
content. Only a small number of users, less than 1%, are expected to face
this issue. Microsoft has released a Windows patch that gives IPv4 preference
over IPv6 on W6D to avoid such issues</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>I setup a global discussion group for this event, with
more technical information on how to prepare for it, on <A
title="http://gogonet.gogo6.com/group/worldipv6day CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://gogonet.gogo6.com/group/worldipv6day">http://gogonet.gogo6.com/group/worldipv6day</A> .
This site also has a software tool to setup a stable IPv6 connection using
the global Freenet6 network so home users will not face IPv6 connectivity
issues.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>-Ahmed</FONT></DIV>
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