[136509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: It's the end of IPv4 as we know it... and I feel fine..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Smith)
Thu Feb 3 11:57:39 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D4AD77A.4050705@rollernet.us>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:38:52 -0500
From: Josh Smith <juicewvu@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Seth,
What sort of ISP do your "not technically inclined" parents have that
offers native ipv6? :-)
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Josh Smith
KD8HRX
email/jabber:=C2=A0 juicewvu@gmail.com
phone:=C2=A0 304.237.9369(c)
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 2/3/11 7:36 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
>> (apologies to REM)
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> The real fun's going to be over the next several years as the RIR's bec=
ome irrelevant in the acquisition of scarce IPv4 resources...and things bec=
ome less stable as lots of orgs rush to implement a strange new IP version.
>>
>> There's clearly two things that need to be done:
>>
>> 1) Major infrastructure (ie: backhaul, corporate, ISP gateway) need to b=
e upgraded/configured to support IPv6
>> 2) Edge networks need to start to hand out IPv6 addresses and name serve=
rs. =C2=A0I think it would be great if providers started handing out IPv6 a=
ddressed name servers when an IPv4 client does a dhcp renew, etc.
>>
>
>
> Well, I'm doing my part by turning up native IPv6 at my parent's house
> this week or next. They are not technically inclined and I'm confident
> it won't be a problem. ;)
>
> ~Seth
>
>
