[136516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And so it ends (slightly off topic)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandre Snarskii)
Thu Feb 3 12:16:15 2011
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:48:45 +0300
From: Alexandre Snarskii <snar@snar.spb.ru>
To: Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>
In-Reply-To: <13205C286662DE4387D9AF3AC30EF456B16F4B85AC@EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:04:29AM -0500, Ronald Bonica wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Somehow, it is appropriate that this should happen on February 3.
> On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and JP Richardson
> (aka The Big Bopper) died in a plane crash. Don McLean immortalized
> that day as "The Day The Music Died" in his 1971 hit, "American Pie".
And exactly this song was later rephrased as 'the day the routers died'
concerning IPv4 exhaustion at RIPE55 meeting. Another coincidence ? :)
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