<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Liko, McTim et al. <br><br>It looks like I might be the first victim of my earlier predictions about the sluggish approach of African Networks not upgrading to IPv6...<br>
                        
                        
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      <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/Home/cduffy%20marsan.html">Carolyn Duffy Marsan</a>, Network World <br> January 19, 2011 10:22 AM ET
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        <div style="display: none;" id="insider_promo_body"><p>Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2010/042810-ipv6-tutorial.html">IPv6</a> on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially.
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<p>Yahoo's massive engineering effort to support <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a>
-- 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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<p><b>IPv6 BROKENNESS BACKGROUND:</b> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/032610-yahoo-dns.html">Yahoo proposes "really ugly hack" to DNS </a></p>      <p class="insider_continue">To continue reading, register <a href="http://reg.idgenterprise.com/insider.html?url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011911-yahoo-ipv6.html">here</a>
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<p class="first">Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2010/042810-ipv6-tutorial.html">IPv6</a> on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially.
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<p>Yahoo's massive engineering effort to support <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a>
-- 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.''
</p><br>check the rest of the unfolding story at,<br><br>http://tinyurl.com/6z634ed<br><br><br>walu.<br><br><br><br><br></td></tr></table><br>