On May 10, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Igor Gashinsky wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > :: On 9 mei 2011, at 21:40, Tony Hain wrote: > :: > :: >> Publicly held corporations are responsible to their shareholders to get > :: >> eyeballs on their content. *That* is their job, not promoting cool new > :: >> network tech. When you have millions of users hitting your site every > :: >> day losing 1/2000 is a large chunk of revenue. > :: > :: Nonsense. 0.05% is well below the noise margin for anything that involves > humans. > > I assure you, it is not. 0.005% might be "in the noise", but 0.05% is > quite measurable given a large enough audience. > > :: >> The fact that the big > :: >> players are doing world IPv6 day at all should be celebrated, promoted, > :: >> and we should all be ready to take to heart the lessons learned from > :: >> it. > :: > :: I applaud the first step, but I'm bothered by the fact that no second step > is planned. > > Just because it's not public, doesn't mean that it hasn't been planned :) > > Most of us want to see the data that we get from the first step, before > making the decision on which second step to take, I'm sure most people > can understand that.
Argck, I cannot believe that I am going to do this, let alone publicly, but here goes... Igor is right on both counts here -- 0.05% is definitely noticeable at these sorts of scale, and I'd be shocked if Yahoo didn't have a set of alerts that fire if projections differ from actual traffic by this amount. I'm also a little surprised that you figured that there were no plans past the event -- much of the point of this is for data gathering -- did you figure folk were just going to gather the data and then ignore it? Ok, that fully used up my "agreeing with Igor" quota for the year... W > > -igor >
