On Feb 6, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
I'm pretty sure the PS3 will get resolved through a software update.
Yes, there will be user-visible disruptions in this transition.
No, it can't be 100% magic on the part of the service provider.
It still has to happen. There is no viable alternative.
There will be *lots* of user visible disruptions. And if you believe, as it appears you do from the integration of your messages on this thread, that anyone anywhere will be able through any legal theory to *force* Sony to make that older PS3 work on IPv6, then the term for your opinion, in *my* opinion, has changed from "optimistic" to "nutsabago". :-)
No. I believe I can force through legal choices hotel providers to refund my internet access charges if they block certain ports. I've done so. I believe that Sony will offer IPv6 software upgrades for the PS-3 because they will eventually realize that failing to do so is bad for future sales.
From up here at 30,000ft, the entire deployment of IPv6 has been cripplingly mismanaged, or we wouldn't be having all these conversations, still, now. Having had them 5 years ago would have been well more than good enough. And it will start to bite, hard, very shortly.
An interesting perspective. The problem with that theory is that nobody actually manages the internet. It is a collection of independently managed networks that happen to coordinate, cooperate, and collaborate on a limited basis to make certain things work. I agree with you that many organizations and individuals could have acted differently to achieve a more optimal transition. However, they didn't and we are where we are. As a result, I think it is far more productive to move forward and make the transition as quickly and effectively as possible than to dwell on claims of "mismanagement" which lack both a meaningful target and any form of useful resolution. Owen