[138702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian de Larrinaga)
Sat Mar 12 14:12:05 2011
From: Christian de Larrinaga <cdel@firsthand.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=J=UaexqSUODLQBN58X=SA13Lp_r6ih=qvPovR@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:02:23 +0100
To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Now that is what Baldrick* would call "a cunning plan!"
And interesting examples.=20
Christian
*Apologies to Tony Robinson and Blackadder
On 12 Mar 2011, at 18:52, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org> =
wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>>> I think you'll be in for a surprise here, too. The 4G transition is =
already underway. For the vendors where 4G means LTE, IPv6 is the native =
protocol and IPv4 requires a certain amount of hackery to operate.
>>>=20
>>=20
>> I'm writing an article where I want to say that but I can't find an
>> article I can reference to back it up.
>>=20
>> I don't want to accidentally encourage an urban legend or rumor. =
(For
>> example, I can't find verification to the rumor that ARIN rejected a
>> request from LTE providers for IPv4 space and instead told them to go
>> straight to IPv6. I do others in this thread saying that native IPv4
>> on LTE is common, so unless someone can give me evidence, I'll have =
to
>> update that part of the article. OMG i'd love to make that point;
>> anyone have proof?).
>>=20
>> I could, instead, write, "most carriers will probably roll IPv6 out =
as
>> part of their 4G upgrade" but that sounds wishy-washy.
>>=20
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Tom
>>=20
>> --
>> http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog (new posts Mon and Wed)
>> http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my advice (more videos coming soon)
>>=20
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> The article I mentioned I was writing has been published and is now
> available on-line here:
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> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3D1959015
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> Thanks for all the assistance both on this mailing list and the
> private email I received!
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> Tom Limoncelli
> http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com
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