[147435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sad IPv4 story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sat Dec 10 07:23:41 2011
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:22:07 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
In-Reply-To: <AC286C37-3A8C-48CD-A446-17E8A53C5497@sungard.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 03:15:01AM -0500, Keegan Holley wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 10, 2011, at 2:58 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
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> >> I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific
> >> area desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their
> >> business the way they would likeb> >
> > and we are supposed to be surprised or feel sorry? you're kidding,
> > right? they're lucky to be in a/p. at least they can get a /22.
> >
> > i especially like the "the way they would like" part. the way i would
> > like to run my business is to go into the office every friday and scoop
> > up the cash that fell from the sky all week.
> >
> > reality is such a pain in the ass.
> >
> > randy
> >
> +1 aren't we way past all of the predicted exhaustion dates. There are slot of as's that have ignored this.
> >
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predictions are ... predictions! guesses. swag. nothing more/less.
i will say this however. after fifteen years, I am exhausted listening to
ipv6 v. ipv4 bickering. (and after five years of running native ipv6-only
networks - i've re-introduced ipv4 to the mix... go figure)
/bill
