Significant Announcement (re: IPv4) 3 February - Watch it Live!

Fri Feb 4 06:45:09 UTC 2011

It started at 9:25 am -- I normally tune in to online videos late, but I'm
glad I checked earlier.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patrick at ianai.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:29 AM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Significant Announcement (re: IPv4) 3 February - Watch it Live!

On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> It didn't work too bad.  Does anyone know why it was pretty much over at
9:30, when they said it would start? Did they start a half-hour early or
something?
> 
> I think that was just the ceremony for handing out the last /8s and it
went very quickly.  The press conference starts at 10:00.

It definitely started at 9:30, and it was very short.

Boring actually.  But that's the way it should have been.  Not like this was
a surprise.  Even the reporter from ZDNet asked "since we gave out the last
2 to APNIC last week, why is this day important?"  If ZDNet gets it, NANOG
(actually *NOG) members should as well.

That said, I guess just like when any long time friend leaves us, we should
have a ceremony to mark the passing.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick