interop show network (was: legacy /8)

Mon Apr 5 04:02:05 UTC 2010

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Jeroen van Aart wrote:

> Someone in another thread mentioned interop show network. Which made me 
> curious and I did a bit of searching. I found the following article from 2008 
> about the interop show: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27583
> 
> The show could setup an IPv6 only network in order to showcase it? That'd 
> free up a /8.

Seriously?  You do realize that the InteropNet actually has to provide a real 
service to the exhibitors and attendees of the show, right?  This year's 
network will support v6, but a v6-only network is just not a practical way to 
supply real network connectivity to customers, yet.

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