[147448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sad IPv4 story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Dorr)
Sun Dec 11 00:44:43 2011
In-Reply-To: <m2borfd8ph.wl%randy@psg.com>
From: Philip Dorr <tagno25@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:43:11 -0800
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: tagno25@gmail.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> No Barry, I respectfully disagree. =C2=A0It's almost 2012. =C2=A0The fir=
st
>> predictions of IPv4 exhaustion were made *last century*. =C2=A0We've bee=
n
>> predicting it to the month level for like 5 years now. =C2=A0Any busines=
s
>> that is making business plans and models that doesn't take "we may not
>> get IPv4 space" into account and have a contingency plan for that
>> *deserves* to be soundly mocked and ridiculed in public.
>
> mocking someone who shows up when the party is already over is not
> overly kind or useful. =C2=A0making clear to the world that the part is o=
ver
> is more useful.
The party is not over, it is just moving from a house to a stadium,
with a large drive between.
