[124667] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Repetski)
Sat Apr 3 14:33:50 2010
From: "Stephen Repetski" <skrepetski@gmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <j2h6eb799ab1004031107y9d8cfdc1nda3d19f7fcd55864@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:33:07 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Hess [mailto:mysidia@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:08 PM
> To: George Bonser
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: legacy /8
>=20
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
> wrote:
> > Any school teaching v4 at this point other than as a legacy protocol
> > that they teach on the second year because "they might see it in the
> > wild" should be closed down. =A0All new instruction that this point
> > should begin and end with v6 with v4 as an "aside". =A0But that =
isn't.
> >
>=20
> They would be doing the student, their customer, a disservice to not =
teach
> both, with emphasis on V4, just because one possible speculated =
outcome
> in the years ahead is that IPv4 becomes a legacy protocol.
> Schools do not have crystal balls, and they can't know how important
> IPv4 or IPv6 will be to those taught later.
I've been taking some networking classes for my undergrad college =
degree,
and there've only been about 3 mentions of IPv6 during the whole time =
I've
been here (at supposedly a high-tech school). Also, did I mention we're
still being taught classful networking? I've never heard my professors =
udder
the CIDR acronym or talk about subnetting. Hopefully this changes as
students progress into the higher-level classes, but I wouldn't want to =
be
the one attempting to get a job with no knowledge of what's changed =
since my
professor was in school.
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Stephen (Trey) Repetski
skr3394@rit.edu | skrepetski@gmail.com
srepetsk.net | RIT '13, TJHSST '09
