World IPv6 Day

[townsley at cisco.com (Mark Townsley)]

On 1/12/11 10:23 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:10:03 -0800
> Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> 
>> > the first global-scale trial of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to
>> > the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4.
>> 
>> this phrasing is both amusing and deeply sad.  amusing because many folk
>> have been running ipv6 globaly for over a decade.  deeply sad because
>> this is taken to be shiny and new as we approach the end of the iana
>> ipv4 free pool.  what have people been smoking?
>> 
> 
> IPv4.
> 
> Every now and then it is worth remembering that IPv4 was a protocol
> that was designed for a small experimental network that managed to
> escape into production. How long it has been usable is actually quite
> remarkable, and has only been achieved through a series of neat hacks
> like classes, subnets and CIDR.


And NAPT, and VPNs, and short IP leases, and...

FWIW, Cisco's jumping in with Google, FB, et. al.

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/world-ipv6-day-working-together-towards-a-new-internet-protocol/

Have a nice weekend,

- Mark

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> Regards,
> Mark.
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