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" > <[email protected]> To: [email protected] 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. )-; > >
