The $200 Billion Lunch: We're switching to IPv6, dontcha know, and it might
be worth it.
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| To a certain extent, it is Sputnik all over again. Some people see this as
| a place where there will be a commercial disadvantage unless the U.S. keeps
| up. It is comparable to NTSC vs. PAL television standards (hint: PAL is
| better but we don't have it).
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| And what is happening in the USA? Well we have Net Neutrality. We
| have a telco rebuilding a national monopoly. We have Cisco and
| Microsoft working together on Network Admission Control (NAC). I can
| see a time in the near future when they'll try to charge me for every
| PC in my house. While China is building a national resource, our
| government is letting companies turn the public Internet into an
| expensive private toll road.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061102_001174.html
This is related to coordinated restrictions on [f/F]reedom.
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