[131288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 21 20:55:37 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1010211353490.2142@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:49:19 -0700
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Jared Mauch wrote:
>=20
>> How would you respond if that were announced? Carriers have been =
doing technology transitions for years. Cidr to classless. Amps to CDMA =
or gsm... This is not new.
>=20
> My next question would be "How many times will that get =
extended/pushed back because somebody screams loudly enough?". It will =
probably sunset around the time that v6 starts to run out of gas and =
people start thinking about IPv8 (assuming IPv7 would be treated like =
odd-numbered Linux kernel releases like 2.3.x, 2.5.x, etc - never to see =
the light of day) :)
>=20
> jms
I'll point out that the FCC sort of tried that with the NTSC->ATSC move.
Finally the broadcasters said "Screw that... You can tell us when we =
have to turn on ATSC, but, you
can't actually prevent us from turning off NTSC. Click!"
Owen
