[134900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World IPv6 Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Wed Jan 12 16:27:29 2011
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:53:55 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2mxn6q6pg.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:10:03 -0800
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
IPv4.
Every now and then it is worth remembering that IPv4 was a protocol
that was designed for a small experimental network that managed to
escape into production. How long it has been usable is actually quite
remarkable, and has only been achieved through a series of neat hacks
like classes, subnets and CIDR.
Regards,
Mark.
