If you liked Y2K, you'll LOVE IPv6.

Robert X. Cringely: "In the current addressing scheme, China received a very small number of IP addresses, and this was causing them a lot of difficulty. If they stayed with the existing system it would have resulted in a nasty network kludge. So they made a national decision to implement IPv6 and put in a good network design. [...] China has done something very impressive and now others are taking notice. We (the U.S.) think we control the Internet, but China is proving otherwise." (via shithappens.)

US policies pay off again, once more.