[135347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World IPv6 Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Townsley)
Sat Jan 22 05:57:58 2011
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:56:49 +0100
From: Mark Townsley <townsley@cisco.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110113075355.548b19bd@opy.nosense.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/12/11 10:23 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> 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.
And NAPT, and VPNs, and short IP leases, and...
FWIW, Cisco's jumping in with Google, FB, et. al.
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/world-ipv6-day-working-together-towards-a-new-internet-protocol/
Have a nice weekend,
- Mark
>
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
>
>
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