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Originally Posted by mithrandir
I see the smiley, Kal, and I'll take it to mean you know it is wrong.
This attitude from the uninformed, aided and abetted by the sensationalist media, annoys me no end. Y2K was a real problem. Due to legal data retention requirements we had systems that had to be fixed before 1986-01-01.
The fact that it passed by with no significant problems was due to millions of hours of work by tens of thousands of IT people end design engineers around the world.
Andrew
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I was going to say the same thing, Y2K was a real problem. Bit as you said, perserverance, planning and just plain hard work by millions of people made a molehill out of a mountain.
IPv4/v6 will be another Y2K like problem, it is not going to stop the Internet, it just halts its expansion until millions of people put in the hard work to move the boundaries.
The big problem with IPv6 is that they threw out a great well understood technology and replaced it with a great technology that no one understands.