[75255] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vijay gill)
Tue Nov 9 15:49:59 2004
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:49:07 +0000
From: vijay gill <vgill@vijaygill.com>
To: Jerry Eyers <jeyers@sloancc.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4191C095.000009.01076@11IBM27>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:17:41AM -0500, Jerry Eyers wrote:
>
> Ok, let me throw some cold reality water on this discussion...
...
> in the UK, the largest 'chemist' in the UK, built the largest
> website in the world (2.4 million cc transactions/month with over 460
> servers) and coordinated an IP renumber for over 3,300 stores
cold reality is about right. 2.4 million cc transactions/mo with over four
hundred and sixty (460)! servers makes it the largest web site in the
world?
I better tell that to our datacenter folks or the guys over at amazon or
msn or latency.net - Adam Rothschild does more than that on his laptop
with a wifi card and a hacked-up wrt58g.
> network infrastructure maintainers out there. You must remember
> to take us into account when talking about global addressing
> policies. In the end, we pay most the bills. :-)
And we thank you for it.
/vijay
