[169990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sat Mar 22 15:36:51 2014
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1403221135590.13760@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:36:06 -0400
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, William Herrin wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Justin M. Streiner
>> <streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> All of these 'Hail Mary' options for 'saving' IPv4 really are pointless.
>>
>>
>> IPv4 is like the U.S. Penny. It'll be useless long before it goes
>> away. And right now it's far from useless.
>
> Interesting analogy, but it misses the larger point. The larger point is
> that the ongoing effort to squeeze more mileage out of IPv4 will soon [1]
> outweigh the mileage we (collectively) get out of it.
Hi Justin,
That's what I hear. Interesting thing though: it hasn't happened yet.
IANA ran out of /8's and it didn't happen. The RIRs dropped to
high-conservation mode on their final allocations and it didn't
happen. How could that be?
In completely unrelated news, placard-bearing lunatics on the streets
of New York City report that The End Is Nigh... for most of the last
century.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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