The metric system has been legal in the US since 1895 when the US agreed
to "adopt" it in exchange for France agreeing to Greenwich, England, for
the Prime Meridian.
Donald
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Otis [mailto:dotis(_at_)mail-abuse(_dot_)org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:17 PM
To: John C Klensin
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; alh-ietf(_at_)tndh(_dot_)net
Subject: Re: DHCP failures (was RE: Do you want to have more
meetingsoutside US ?)
On Jul 31, 2007, at 6:30 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
And, while I'm picking on DHCP because I personally had more
problems with it, I see IPv6 authconfig as being exactly the same
issue: we are telling the world that these things work and they
should be using them; if we can't make them work for our own
meetings...
Whether one regards IPv6 as "ready for prime-time" depends upon
location. IPv6 appears to represent a metric measurement in the only
industrially developed nation, despite a 1975 act of Congress, still
is using fahrenheit, ounce, pound, inch, feet, and mile. There will
always be problems offering an excuse not to adopt change, even when
the rest of world has. Oddly, a 2x4 is neither, but might be
required to promote change.
-Doug
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