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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Feb 26 17:14:04 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B8843F4.9070108@foobar.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:13:23 -0800
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 26/02/2010 21:13, Antonio Querubin wrote:
>> Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other =
things):
>>=20
>> http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx
>=20
> Wow, there are some real classics in there. Anyone in need of a good =
end-of-week belly laugh should take a look at "Delayed Contribution 93" =
and "Contribution 30".
Given the folks who read/write these sorts of documents tend to make =
national laws attempting to implement the policies the documents =
describe, I'm not sure "belly laugh" is the right anatomical reaction.=20=
> The pitiful level of misunderstanding displayed by the authors of =
these documents is frightening.
If you want to be really frightened, remember that the IPv4 free pool is =
going to be exhausted in something like 576 days. Given the lack of =
IPv6 deployment, the subsequent food fights that erupt as markets in =
IPv4 addresses are established are likely going to be "interesting". =
Politicians very much like to be seen to be "doing something" in =
interesting food fights. If this causes you any level of concern, for =
any of you going to APNIC, you might want to participate in =
http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2010/apnic-29-consultation.
Regards,
-drc
