[130970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Oct 18 16:59:06 2010
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:58:57 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
In-Reply-To: <2811134.7.1287434296118.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/18/10 1:38 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> I'm an IPv6 pioneer, because I did it the year, you could really go
> IPv6 only. That was when ICANN put IPv6 glue in the root zone, which
> fell a few days before the IETF did an IPv4 blackout.
>
> I thank Russ to come up with this IPv4 blackout, because it certainly
> encouraged ICANN to get its act and Google to do ipv6.google.com.
Insofar as I am aware the first "ipv6 hour" was the brainchild of Randy
Bush and Mark Tinka at apricot 2008. Not experienced first at the IETF.
> I'm
> not sure which came first in this story, but for me IPv6 left
> research to production on that year. The problem it should have
> happened 5 years earlier, now everyone is struggling to catch up...
>
> This is the year also IETF (and carriers, vendors,...) started to
> realize all the issues that were left to tackle.
>
> People before that were Mavericks!
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aleksi Suhonen"
> <nanog-poster@axu.tm> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, 19 October,
> 2010 3:07:32 AM Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
>
> Hello,
>
> ML wrote:
>> IPv6 Hipsters..Doing it before it was cool.
>
> I'm afraid I'm still doing it before it's cool. )-;
>
>
