
30 May
2018
30 May
'18
11:05 p.m.
The UN has a plan to try to increase IPv6 adoption <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/30/internet_engineers_united_nations_ipv6/>. However, it does it by essentially saddling IPv6 with all the limitations of IPv4 that IPv6 was specifically created to overcome. The UN has been trying for a while to take over governance of the Internet and its standards. This has been fought off by a US-led effort in favour of the IETF, ICANN etc -- all the bodies we know and love. However, the UN can claim some moral high ground in its advocacy for greater adoption among the developing world -- places where such bodies tend to be under-represented.