[AusNOG] [LINK] [ISOC-AU-mems] Happy Birthday ... AARNet

[Mark Smith]

Geoff Huston wrote:
>> I specifically remember a slip connection to Hawaii growing from 1200
>> bps to 2400 bps preceeding the 56Kb frame relay connection.
> 

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> 
> Yawn. That was years ago. On to today's problems. What are we going to  
> do given that noone is doing anything remotely serious in IPv6 and the  
> crunch time of IPv4 address exhaustion is getting ever closer? If we  
> can't manage to preserve some level of protocol coherence across the  
> network in the coming few years then we may end up not much better off  
> than the situation on 20 years ago. Or do we say goodbye to all this  
> end-to-end IP stuff and just run client sever over http and forget  
> than anything else was ever possible?
> 

I don't think Internet end-users are aware of the problem, let a alone
what it is, why its occurring, and what the consequences will be. They
haven't been told what it is, and they don't know to ask for it.

That seems to me to be a marketing problem. We need to get the message
to the Internet end-user market that the Internet is heading towards a
wall, and needs to be upgraded. We need to explain in very simple terms,
what the problem is - "The Internet is running out of phone numbers!" 
(and then explain that public Internet addresses are like phone numbers) 
- I think should be a simple enough place to start.

Who should run this campaign? ISOC or the IPv6 Forum (or both) I reckon.


Regards,
Mark.