[kictanet] Yahoo IPv6 upgrade could shut out 1 million Internet users

[Walubengo J]

Liko, McTim et al. 

It looks like I might be the first victim of my earlier predictions about the sluggish approach of African Networks not upgrading to IPv6...

			
			
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      Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World 
 January 19, 2011 10:22 AM ET
          	
						
						        	 
     

    
    
  
        
    
    
   
	
		
    	
		
		
        Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially.

Yahoo's massive engineering effort to support IPv6
-- the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications
protocol -- could at first shut out potential www.yahoo.com users due
to what the company and others call "IPv6 brokenness.''

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Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially.

Yahoo's massive engineering effort to support IPv6
-- the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications
protocol -- could at first shut out potential www.yahoo.com users due
to what the company and others call "IPv6 brokenness.''

check the rest of the unfolding story at,

http://tinyurl.com/6z634ed


walu.







      
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