[140605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Sat May 14 17:40:00 2011
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 16:38:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org, vixie@isc.org
In-Reply-To: <88271.1305392805@nsa.vix.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Yahoo and IPv6
> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:06:45 +0000
>
> > From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
> > Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 13:02:16 -0400
> >
> > I think that the real question is, when will people who are running
> > IPv4 only not be on the Internet by this definition ?
>
> is there an online betting mechanism we could use, that we all think will
> still be in business decades from now when the truth is known? if we're
> going to start picking the month and year when IPv4 is the new "PDP-11
> compatibility mode" (that's a VAX reference), where the winner is whoever
> comes closest without going over, my pick is July 2021, and i'm in for $50.
>
You could probably interest the University of Iowa College of Business in
it. See: <http://tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/index.cfm>
The genesis of of this project was a 'futures' exchange on candidates for
the office of President of the United States. It's had an amazing track-
record of identifying 'winners' there.
