On Feb 6, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@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