Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Mon Oct 18 16:09:23 UTC 2010

On 10/18/10 8:35 AM, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> [2010-10-18 17:27]:
>> Have you done IPv6?
>> I have... It's not even difficult(), let alone really().Really().Difficult().
> 
> maybe not from a users standpoint (that comes later when it misbehaves
> again). from an implementors (I have written a lot of kernel-side
> networking code and networking related daemons, including a full-blown
> bgpd, and that unfortunately included having to deal with v6)
> viewpoint - IPv6 is a desaster. Why people take up that crap is beyond
> me, instead of working on a viable alternative that doesn't suck.
> Which is certainly possible.

Wait, and OpenBSD developer that thinks everyone else's work is crap?
Shocking...

I encourage you to build and deploy your viable alternative...

thanks
joel