[172437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George, Wes)
Wed Jun 18 19:02:26 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "George, Wes" <wesley.george@twcable.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:02:15 -0400
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