Books don't happen without quite a lot of help. We've lots of people to thank, but we should single out Mike Loukides from O'Reilly, who helped to make this a reality, followed by everyone at our publisher.
We'd like to thank Robert H Zakon for reference to his Internet Timeline, at http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/. We'd also like to thank David Wilson of HEAnet Ireland for significant contributions to the routing-relevant sections of this book. Go, Dave! HEAnet and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies also provided us with access to hardware and people. Ken Duffy managed to resist the temptation to edit our manuscript, and we can only admire his restraint.
Various others contributed comments, corrections or clarifications to this book. In no particular order, we'd like to thank John Walsh, Colm MacCárthaigh, Sharon Murphy, Wayne Sullivan, Glynn Foster, Juliana Breithaupt, Ian Dowse, Niall Brady, Orla McGann, Christine Hogan, Willie O'Connor, Ross Chandler, Jennie O'Farrell, Tadhg O'Higgins, Gary Coady, Eoin Lawless, Sharon Jackson, Mike Norris, Leo Vegoda, John Nisbet, Susan Quinn, Alex French, Jennifer Alexander, Peta Spies, Eoin Kenny, Phil Bradley, Peter Bieringer, John Tobin, Ruadhri Power, Ronan Kelly, and Pekka Savola.
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of their respective organizations, without which pens would never have been lifted in anger. (That was, of course, a figure of speech: no pens were harmed during the making of this book.)
David would like to thank the Communication Networks Research Institute for its support, Niall for having the enthusiasm to get this book off the ground, Sharon for advice on book writing, Trinity College Dublin for being his primary IPv6 guinea pig and all those who have offered us advice, corrections and suggestions.
Niall would like to thank Léan, for believing in him when he did not, and Dave Wilson, for inviting him in. Kate Murphy and the Gray family provided welcome familial support, and tribute is due to his friends and the technical community in Ireland for rallying around and helping so generously.
We'd like to thank HEAnet for their kind loan of a 26xx and the facilities of their test lab for us to crash during the preparation of this book. We'd also like to thank EsatBT and Eircom, local Irish ISPs, for implementing IPv6 support for their customers sufficiently well that we could use it, also during the preparation of the book.
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