[147453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sad IPv4 story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Parsonage)
Sun Dec 11 08:42:25 2011
From: Eric Parsonage <eric@eparsonage.com>
In-Reply-To: <15282.1323576426@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:11:08 +1030
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/12/2011, at 2:37 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:48:45 EST, Barry Shein said:
>>>> 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 like?
>>=20
>> This sniping elicited by the above seems inappropriate and
>> unprofessional, the request/anecdote seemed reasonable and could
>> elicit solutions such as partnerships, etc.
>=20
> No Barry, I respectfully disagree. It's almost 2012. The first =
predictions of
> IPv4 exhaustion were made *last century*. We've been predicting it to =
the
> month level for like 5 years now. Any business 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.
You could take this one step further and say any industry that has had =
this much warning and hasn=92t taken it into account *deserves* to be =
soundly mocked and ridiculed in public.=20=
