[137396] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Feb 11 22:40:49 2011
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:40:29 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5AEE022A-CFA8-4F11-BDD1-6B0FD6DA077A@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/11/2011 9:31 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> If you want to compare masses, IPv4 = 7 liters of water.
> IPv6 = EARTH, including all rocks, trees, oceans, lakes, puddles,
> etc.
Was trying to explain things to a telco VP today. Finally settled on,
"The Internet is out of 10 digit phone numbers. We're upgrading to 40
digit phone numbers. Unfortunately, the two can't dial each other directly."
After 51+ years in the telco industry, I think he gets that problem.
Jack
