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Re: World IPv6 Day

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jan 12 14:10:48 2011

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:10:03 -0800
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik-Xk8Pk_i_3Mo6_2usU=3kAKh-X9mmxtKCVcxA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> the first global-scale trial of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to
> the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4.

this phrasing is both amusing and deeply sad.  amusing because many folk
have been running ipv6 globaly for over a decade.  deeply sad because
this is taken to be shiny and new as we approach the end of the iana
ipv4 free pool.  what have people been smoking?

randy


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