[AusNOG] IPocalypse now (?)

[Narelle]

An IPv4 address space walks into a bar: "A strong CIDR please. I'm exhausted."

We now have no choice but to:
- be even more conservative in IPv4 usage, renumbering wherever
possible on our own networks
- deploy that oxymoron technology carrier grade NAT
- dual stack and get over it

For some time I have likened watching IPv6 take up to watching the
Little Penguins on the beach at Philip Island. The penguins all gather
in clumps on the beach, nervously eyeing each other off. They twitch,
spit and peck seeming to say: "Are you going?" "Not me, are you
going?" "No, no, I'm not going." "Shall we go?" "Don't you dare,
no"... until all of a sudden one brave soul charges off across the
beach. After a gap of time another heads out, then another. After
these few lonesome souls have braved their fears, the whole crowd
moves almost as a swarm.

I think the penguins are moving.


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM, grenville armitage
<garmitage at swin.edu.au> wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 11:53, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
>> My general feeling is that anything that allows a delay in moving to IPv6 is, well, just going to end in more tears later on.
>
> I love the smell of NATpalm in the morning.



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