Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Mon Oct 18 20:58:57 UTC 2010

On 10/18/10 1:38 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> I'm an IPv6 pioneer, because I did it the year, you could really go
> IPv6 only. That was when ICANN put IPv6 glue in the root zone, which
> fell a few days before the IETF did an IPv4 blackout.
> 
> I thank Russ to come up with this IPv4 blackout, because it certainly
> encouraged ICANN to get its act and Google to do ipv6.google.com.

Insofar as I am aware the first "ipv6 hour" was the brainchild of Randy
Bush and Mark Tinka at apricot 2008. Not experienced first at the IETF.

> I'm
> not sure which came first in this story, but for me IPv6 left
> research to production on that year. The problem it should have
> happened 5 years earlier, now everyone is struggling to catch up...
> 
> This is the year also IETF (and carriers, vendors,...) started to
> realize all the issues that were left to tackle.
> 
> People before that were Mavericks!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aleksi Suhonen"
> <nanog-poster at axu.tm> To: nanog at nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, 19 October,
> 2010 3:07:32 AM Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
> 
> Hello,
> 
> ML wrote:
>> IPv6 Hipsters..Doing it before it was cool.
> 
> I'm afraid I'm still doing it before it's cool. )-;
> 
> 