[131291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Oct 21 21:13:29 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:21 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20101022005322.GS45727@burnout.tpb.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/21/2010 7:53 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
> * bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) [Thu 21 Oct 2010, 22:59 CEST]:
>> And, of course, the RIRs could just cancel all the IPv4 route
>> announcements, whatever they do if someone doesn't pay or whatever.
>
> I think you're mistaking the default-free zone for Usenet. The DFZ
> doesn't have 'cmsg cancel' messages.
>
The "whatever they do if someone doesn't pay" is a nightmare. I suspect
such a recourse wouldn't work for stopping IPv4.
Jack
