[124660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sat Apr 3 13:43:02 2010
To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:43:23 CDT."
<4BB7621B.9030607@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:40:54 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <4BB7621B.9030607@cox.net>, Larry Sheldon writes:
> On 4/3/2010 10:34, Michael Dillon wrote:
> >> That adoption is so low at this point really says that it has failed.
> >
> > In the real world, there is no success or failure, only next steps.
> > At this point, IPv4 has failed,
>
> Failed? Really?!!?!
Failed, no. However it's well past its "best before date" and is on
life support and has been for many years now.
> Not often you hear something that has changed just about every aspect of
> life and enabled things that could not be imagined at its outset called
> a failure
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