[AusNOG] World IPv6 Day

[Andrew Buckley]

RFC1924 anyone?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1924 





----- Original Message -----
From: John.Gibbins at csiro.au
Sent: 06/09/11 11:44 AM
To: bayliss at juniper.net, narellec at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] World IPv6 Day

 Couldn't we just have the libraries that display the address use ASCII instead of hex? That way a 64 bit interface address could represent an arbitrary 8 char string. eg 2001:db9:4865:6c6c:6f20:576f:726c:6421=> 2001:db9:"Hello World!" -- John Gibbins Team Leader - IT Security/Authentication (and IPv6 Evangelist) CSIRO Information Management & Technology (IM&T) Phone: +61 2 6124 1419 | Fax: +61 2 6124 1414 | Mob: 0419 605 562 John.Gibbins at csiro.au | www.csiro.au PO BOX 225, Dickson ACT 2602 Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Richard Bayliss Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:19 AM To: Narelle Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net Subject: Re: [AusNOG] World IPv6 Day Careful Narelle, Otherwise soon there will be a proposal for IPv8 which includes support for all of the missing english and non-english characters. Yikes! Cheers Rich On 09/06/2011, at 9:54 AM, Narelle wrote: > That is really clever. > > I admit I've been struggling with these Very Big Addresses for a > while, til Skeeve pointed out all I should do is make words! Mind you > we were talking about memorable things like abba. > > It's kinda hard when you've got whole IPv4 addressing plans burnt into > your brain... > > I'm going to have to keep a note somewhere of favourite ping6 and > traceroute6 destinations for those routine connectivity tests, but > really, we might even be able to remember 2620::1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2 > or 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d !! > > Just gorgeous. Truly, What's not to love!!? > > Narelle > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at cisco.com> wrote: >> we had a bit of fun too. >> >> ltd-mbp2:~ lincolndale$ dig +short aaaa www.cisco.com >> 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d >> ltd-mbp2:~ lincolndale$ >> >> >> cheers, >> >> lincoln. >> On 08/06/2011, at 12:40 PM, Michael Bowe wrote: >> >>> LOL at the facebook IP >>> >>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft >>> >>> dig +short www.facebook.com aaaa >>> 2620::1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2 > > > -- > > > Narelle Clark > > vice-president at isoc-au.org.au > www.isoc-au.org.au > www.ipv6.org.au > www.worldipv6day.org > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
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