[NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

Fri May 2 21:40:39 UTC 2008

You first, mister chicken-with-his-head-cut-off.

What's your plan?

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Mike Leber <mleber at he.net> wrote:

>
> Since nobody mentioned it yet, there are now less than 1000 days projected
> until IPv4 exhaustion:
>
> http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/
>
> Do you have an IPv6 plan?
>
> How long do you think it will be until Sarbanes Oxley and SAS 70 auditors
> start requiring disclosure of IPv4 exhaustion as a business continuity
> risk, as well as the presence or lack thereof of an IPv6 plan?
>
> When do you plan on telling your customers?  (afterwards?)
>
> Ahhh, you don't have any customers that have to plan to buy equipment 2
> years in advance.  Ok, I understand.
>
> Mike.
> ps. 1000 days assumes no rush, speculation, or hoarding.  Do people do
> that?
>
> pps. Of course these are provocative comments for amusement.  :)
>
> ppps. Or not if you don't have any kind of IPv6 plan.  Sorry, sorry...
>
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