[137397] in North American Network Operators' Group
PSTN address expansion (was: Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Feb 11 22:54:24 2011
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:54:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D56012D.3060606@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
> 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."
http://www.lincmad.com/future.html
Cheers,
-- jra
