[97028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed May 30 20:37:31 2007
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:34:44 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa@sunlightdata.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200705310026.l4V0QfK29429@broadway.hevanet.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> what problem is it that IPv6 is actually supposed to solve?
that's an easy one. in 1993-5, the press was screaming that we were
about to run out of ip space. a half-assed design was released. the
press stopped screaming. victory was declared, everyone went home.
and, as usual, ops and engineering get to clean up the disaster.
randy
